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November 23rd, 2005

Incorrect Snoopy usage

These are some of the ways that employees of the Metlife company (who have rights to use Snoopy in their materials) are not supposed to use images of Snoopy.

Of course the rest of us are not allowed to use a Snoopy image at all on the web. Those who do might well find themselves in reciept of a letter like this.

As a cartoonist I do guard my copyright fairly jealously, because if people start using my cartoons without paying then I have to eat half tins of baked beans rather than full ones. But perhaps these huge companies who are making millions from their cartoons could give people a bit more leeway and perhaps overlook the odd illegal use of their images.

What do you think?

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2 Responses to “Incorrect Snoopy usage”


  1. Mike says:

    Yeah, I’d say so.

    November 23rd, 2005 at 2:51 pm
  2. John Carney says:

    I don’t know if the laws work differently in the UK, but supposedly there’s a legal principle here in the US by which you have to show that you’ve defended your copyright. In other words, you can’t simply wink at some illegal uses and then expect to get a judgement against others. You have to establish that you have consistently defended your copyright, or else your case will be invalid. That leads to some really ridiculous-seeming cases, where legal action is threatened against seemingly-harmless defendants, but it’s necessary in order to later make a case against more egregious defendants.

    That having been said, I think there are ways for a creator to set up an official policy allowing the limited use of his/her work on fan sites or what have you, as long as it’s consistently enforced.

    November 23rd, 2005 at 7:33 pm