Jon Harmon demonstrates that it’s hard to write science fiction these days, when events often happen sooner than expected. In 2004 a flash film, Epic 2014 proposed that in 2011 the New York Times would sue the conglomerate aggregator Googlezon for copyright infringement. Well, it’s already happening: the Beijing News is suing Chinese aggregator tom.com in Shanghai. For copyright infringement. In China. The irony!

The suit is only for damages of $400,000, but it’s an interesting test case. Is suing your competitors good risk management? I guess we’ll see.

-jsq