Couldn’t This Have Been Settled On The Playground?

In what may be the most bizarre copyright lawsuit of the year, a Colombian painter is being sued by two marketing firms for interfering with their efforts to sell reproductions of his work. The fracas started when artist Fernando Botero donated a number of his works to a Colombian museum, which turned around and sold the right to produce and market posters of several of the works. Angered by the move, Botero told several media outlets in Miami that the posters were “unauthorized and illegitimate,” which the company producing the posters viewed as a deliberate effort to suppress sales.