I thought some of the recent extensions to American copyright laws were bizarre, but the BBC reports that the estate of Victor Hugo is suing a gentleman who wrote a sequel to Cosette (AKA Les Miserables.)
But Hugo died 116 years ago! Here people thought Disney was being greedy when it pushed through an extension to American law to give IP protection up to 70 years after the death of a creator.
I think I’m going to quit my job and start suing pretty much the entire English literary establishment on behalf of Chaucer (after all, isn’t pretty much everything worth reading in English pretty much a ripoff of Chaucer?).