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!
Wow, that’s pretty crazy. I at least had no idea this happened. I did not own the game personally but I know we rented it a few times and it was surprisingly fun.
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!