Well I stumbled over an interesting story, that naturally ended up in an article to write.

This one’s pretty odd, but the tl;dr version is that Pixar sued DMA Design. They’d created a game on the SNES which featured a unicycle. That’s it. That’s the extent of the copyright infringement Pixar claimed.

Back in 1987 Pixar had made a CG short which featured a unicycle, and so all those years later…they got weirdly litigious.

If you’re curious, I found this a super interesting story to cover!

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-wheel-that-went-to-court/

  • PerfectDarkOPM
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    3 hours ago

    I had no idea either! I spotted a comment (since last week it was the 40th anniversary of Pixar) and that led me down the rabbit hole of finding all of this out.

    …and I thought, well that’d make an interesting article to write!