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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 26 Aug 1996.

                            
    
    
Re: QUESTION: Does ascii-art violate copyright protection?
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: QUESTION: Does ascii-art violate copyright protection?

                    

                        From Ren Tescher <re...@rap.ucar.edu>
                        · rec.arts.ascii
                        · 26 Aug 1996 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
In article <4vj4vd$il...@freenet.vcu.edu> ber...@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



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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