X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,7f9e61c3b3c5cb7e X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public From: ren@rap.ucar.edu (Ren Tescher) Subject: Re: QUESTION: Does ascii-art violate copyright protection? Date: 1996/08/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176814158 sender: bertino@netcom13.netcom.com references: <4vj4vd$il2@freenet.vcu.edu> organization: Research Applications Program, NCAR, Boulder, CO USA newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii In article <4vj4vd$il2@freenet.vcu.edu> bertino@netcom.com (Don Bertino) writes: >Calvin and Hobbes ARE NOT violations of copyright laws...in the >last Calvin and Hobbes book,in the intro i believe, you will >find Bill Waterson saying that he HAS NOT copyright protected any of his >characters. Thus, those stickers you see of Calvin pissing on >something are free to use...so C&H ascii's probably would not >violate any laws, yet (in my opinion) the use of other figures >on items made to be sold would be a violation. I think you and I read different books. I read in Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book that Waterson has never licensed his drawings to outsiders because his subjects are too controversial at times and licensees would be constantly telling him how to write his strip for a broader (commercial) appeal. He did mention that the strip with Calvin and Hobbes dancing to a classical phonograph record playing at 78 rpm was probably one of the most illegally distributed violations of his copyright. >i may be wrong on all of this but i'm pretty sure. Go read it again, this time don't just look at the pictures... Ren dona nobis pacem