Warner Bros. and 5th Cell facing Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat lawsuit

Technically they should be suing a lot more people if that's the case.

But still...lol wut?

I seem to remember an episode of South Park making fun of people like that who make internet memes. I sure hope they get their imaginary internet money like all those other meme makers got.

suing over a meme? the heck these guys should just get over it

I'm guessing this could be a form of karma. Warner was one of the companies that used anti-used game practices on console games just like EA and THQ. EA got a bad rep and THQ's gone bankrupt. I wonder what's the next company resorting to anti-used practices that's going to get what they deserve.

I would have thought people who made such silly videos aren't humorless money grabbers. I think I'd be happy to have anything I make put into a game, especially when it's so harmless.

Lawsuits. Lawsuits everywhere.

Anything to make a buck. I wasn't aware that you could own moving a cat over a keyboard.

To all the people saying they didn't copyright it in time:

1) the USA signed TRIPS

2) "Copyright must be granted automatically, and not based upon any "formality," such as registrations, as specified in the Berne Convention. (Art. 9)"

Sounds like they are money whores. They never cared about people using their lame meme, and never bothered to trademark them until Scribblenauts came out and became a big success. They were never gonna do anything with their memes. They will lose their lawsuit because of that, and all they will have left are their Internet bucks (ala South Park).

And this, my dear friends, is why our copyright system is horses***.

I just... I don't know. I honestly don't know. XD

Just imagine, if the guys that created Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat succeed then Drinkbox studios and Guacamelee! may be in serious problems in the future -_-

They got the copyright after the game was made... Well case closed then.

Really, using a stupid meme! There is no copyright for something that has grown out of the internet culture. I hope they lose big time.

This is the stupidest lawsuit I've read about since I was a kid.

Someone please get Kelloggs to sue the Nyan Cat guy for infringement on Pop-Tarts. FFS the meme was only popular after SOMEONE ELSE added music to it and posted it on YouTube.

How embarrassingly mercenary of them.

They are using a representation or allusion to Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat. They are not using memes. Huge difference.

One word: Lol

How adorable - thanks to a retarded society these morons see an opportunity to make money and go for the win.

Boooooooooo.

Wow your meme got used without permission. I think they are missing the whole point of memes. Good thing the owners of DBZ don't sue every time they see an "over 9000" meme get used. Or Nintendo throwing out a lawsuit every time "do a barrel roll" gets posted.

Suing because of internet memes. What the **** is wrong with this world?