Lillian Virginia Mountweazel

Submitted by Bibliofuture on February 11, 2008 - 2:17pm
Topic: 
Publishing

In 2005 there was an article in The New Yorker about a fake entry in the 1975 New Columbia Encyclopedia for Lillian Virginia Mountweazel. The entry was a copyright trap.

There is a YouTube video that discusses the entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjRdhVlw354