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Mar. 17th, 2009 02:44 pmPopeye, Grey Owl and Robert Service join the public domain
Last Updated: Monday, January 12, 2009 | 4:50 PM ET
By David MacQuarrie, CBC News
Generations of fans know that despite his many flaws, Popeye is a man at ease with himself.
"I yam what I yam," the spinach-loving sailor man has long reminded friends and foes.
But as of the first day of 2009, he "yam" a whole lot more.
He's public domain.
Popeye's image now belongs to the world.
There are no longer royalties to pay because his creator, Elzie Segar, died in 1939, and in much of the world, copyright expires 70 years after the creator's death. Put his squinty-eyed face on a T-shirt, use his forearms to advertise spinach or lift his image off the internet to illustrate your story on public domain.
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To which I say:
BARTHOLOMEW WOLFE BAAAAANNNNNDY, SET HIM FREEEE !!!!
Orlando was interesting. Didn't see much of the outside world since I was up early each morning to catch as many presentations and discussions as I could, and by 5:00 was kinda tuckered out. The weather was good, more cloudy than sunny and around 25 - 28 degrees: their March is like our August, if our Augusts would ever return to being hot....
I met some interesting folks, and one night Joe and I went out to a Goth club (more accurately, Goth night at a bar) that was pretty good. Met a guy who told us that the real Goth scene in Florida was in Tampa, which made me giggle because the old Saturday Night Live sketch "Goth Talk" with Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon was broadcast through Tampa community access channel.
http://www.waningmoon.com/gothica/articles/6660025.shtml
Last Updated: Monday, January 12, 2009 | 4:50 PM ET
By David MacQuarrie, CBC News
Generations of fans know that despite his many flaws, Popeye is a man at ease with himself.
"I yam what I yam," the spinach-loving sailor man has long reminded friends and foes.
But as of the first day of 2009, he "yam" a whole lot more.
He's public domain.
Popeye's image now belongs to the world.
There are no longer royalties to pay because his creator, Elzie Segar, died in 1939, and in much of the world, copyright expires 70 years after the creator's death. Put his squinty-eyed face on a T-shirt, use his forearms to advertise spinach or lift his image off the internet to illustrate your story on public domain.
( Read more... )
To which I say:
BARTHOLOMEW WOLFE BAAAAANNNNNDY, SET HIM FREEEE !!!!
Orlando was interesting. Didn't see much of the outside world since I was up early each morning to catch as many presentations and discussions as I could, and by 5:00 was kinda tuckered out. The weather was good, more cloudy than sunny and around 25 - 28 degrees: their March is like our August, if our Augusts would ever return to being hot....
I met some interesting folks, and one night Joe and I went out to a Goth club (more accurately, Goth night at a bar) that was pretty good. Met a guy who told us that the real Goth scene in Florida was in Tampa, which made me giggle because the old Saturday Night Live sketch "Goth Talk" with Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon was broadcast through Tampa community access channel.
http://www.waningmoon.com/gothica/articles/6660025.shtml
