Granted, the lifting of a character name seems fairly blatant. But for the Red Hot Chili Peppers to sue Showtime alleging that the cable network’s show Californication infringes on the band’s copyright of the term is ludicrous, since it dates at least to the early 1970s — more than twenty years before the band’s album and song of that name.
Dang shame I have no RHCP albums. Then I could sell them back to Everyday with impugnity and then boycott them.
Truth is, I never had any use for ‘em; at first, when I read this, I had to go “who…oh, yeah, them!”
They give capsicum a bad name.