A company, Sun Microsystems, invented a programming language called Java. They filed copyright for this word and they now own the word Java.
Sun's lawyers quickly decided to sue the Island of Java's government for copyright infringement.
That's right, Sun says that the name of a country is infringing on their copyright!
The case went to court, the battle was long and hard but in the end, Sun Microsystems lawyers won the case. The islands of Java were forced to change their name to something else.
They are now know as 'The Islands Formerly Known As Java' .
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