Watching the 2022 Warner Brothers movie The Batman, Christopher Wozniak, a former freelance artist for DC Comics, was purportedly stunned by “so many similarities” between the movie and “his story.” Wasting no time, Wozniak filed an application with the United States Copyright Office to register a work he called “Wozniak Batman Riddler Plot.” He listed 1990 as the creation date of the work and uploaded an electronic copy of it to the Copyright Office’s filing system. He left blank the field in the application that asked whether the work contained any pre-existing material.
