[78-L] Hi-yo Columbo (not Cristofo), wuz Re: Heigh-ho Silver!

[David Lennick]

To give credit where it's due, Mike Daley posted a link to that story last night.

dl

On 12/10/2011 2:48 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> This is the part of the wackypedia article Lennick posted that is
> related to something I brought up last week -- the inclusion of a false
> entry in a discography to expose copying.  Note that legally it didn't
> work.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> !
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
> The name "Philip Columbo," was, in fact, invented by Fred L. Worth, in
> whose
> book, The Trivia Encyclopedia, the fictitious entry about Columbo's
> first name
> was actually a "copyright trap" – a deliberately false statement
> intended to
> reveal subsequent copyright infringement.[contradiction][21] Ultimately,
>
> however, Worth's ploy was not successful. In 1984, he filed a $300
> million
> lawsuit against the distributors of the board game, Trivial Pursuit,
> claiming
> that they had sourced their questions from his book, even to the point
> of
> reproducing typographical errors contained in the book. Worth's suit
> revolved
> around the use of the name, "Philip Columbo", included in a
> game-question about
> Lt Columbo. The makers of Trivial Pursuit did not deny that they sourced
>
> material from Worth's book, but argued there was nothing improper about
> using
> the book, as one of a number of other references, in the process of
> building
> game-questions. The judge agreed, ruling in favor of Trivial Pursuit,
> and the
> case was dismissed.[21] Worth appealed, but the Court of Appeals for the
> Ninth
> Circuit affirmed.[22] Worth asked the United States Supreme Court to
> hear the
> case, but it declined.[23]
>
>
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