Charles Carreon Drops Lawsuit Against Matthew Inman

Via Gary Tyrrell comes word that attorney Charles Carreon dropped his lawsuit against Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal late Tuesday afternoon. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's story accurately gauges the temperature of the wider cultural room by calling the suit bizarre. Not only did it seem Inman was perfectly within generally acceptable moral rights not to be totally overjoyed that his work was being adopted and re-employed wholesale, but part of Carreon's legal-action campaign included trying to block a charitable effort that grew out of the back-and-forth -- maybe not exactly the most kind-hearted charitable effort, but a charitable effort nonetheless.

Tyrrell also directs our attention to this analysis, which notes that there were small eddies of weirdness created by the filings that may not go away immediately.
 
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