Craig Wright Hints at Possible Legal Battle Against Apple Over Bitcoin White Paper – What's Going On?
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright has hinted at a possible legal battle against Apple over the storage of Bitcoin white paper on its computers, claiming it violates copyright laws.
In response to a Twitter user who asked if Apple might be “in breach of copyright” for storing the Bitcoin white paper on its computers, the Australian computer scientist said: “Yes.”
Wright has long claimed that he is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
The computer scientist has also argued that his intellectual property rights have been infringed upon by Bitcoin spin-offs derived from the cryptocurrency since he created the original blockchain.
He has also filed numerous lawsuits over this matter.
Back in 2021, Wright filed a lawsuit against the Bitcoin.org website to have its copy of the Bitcoin white paper removed from the website, claiming that it violates copyright laws.
At the time, he won a default judgment against Cobra, the operator of the Bitcoin.org website on a technicality, as Cobra refused to testify under his real name or provide pseudonymity-compromising oral testimony at a British court hearing.
However, a recent ruling by a U.K. judge went against Wright’s claims, stating that copyright law cannot be applied to something whose subject matter is not expressed or fixed anywhere.
The cryptocurrency community has long been skeptical of Wright’s claims to be the creator of Bitcoin, and he has faced legal challenges over his claims in the past.
In 2022, he sued cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Kraken over their misrepresentation of "Bitcoin Core" as the actual Bitcoin. Wright has argued that the real BTC is his Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV).
Additionally, Wright has sued 15 developers to obtain
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