UK court grants appeal from Craig Wright in Bitcoin rights lawsuit
The decision reverses a prior ruling, allowing Craig Wright to appeal a lawsuit claiming copyright to the Bitcoin whitepaper and database. A British court granted an appeal on July 20 that gave Craig Wright the right to argue in a litigation that the Bitcoin file format is well-defined enough to qualify for copyright protection. Wright, who since 2016 has claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin (BTC), launched a lawsuit against 13 Bitcoin Core developers and a group of companies, including Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, alleging violation of his copyright to the Bitcoin whitepaper, its file format and database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain. The decision reversed a ruling from February that considered Wright's arguments insufficient to show how the Bitcoin file format was first recorded, a concept known as fixation on copyright laws. "The Claimants may consider themselves unlucky to have had their application for leave to serve out come before a Judge with at least some...