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Popeye - Copyright free in the EU
Popeye is finally free in the EU while folks in the USA will have to wait until 2024 before they can start selling their own Popeye t-shirts, or drawing their own Popeye comic strips.
The original artist Elzie Segar died over 70 years ago, in 1938. As one commentator puts it, "Why should mega-corporations continue to be the sole beneficiaries of work done by someone long dead?".
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Comment by John Freeman on January 9, 2009 at 9:38am - I suspect you'll find that United Media will continue to enforce its rights over Popeye, given that he's been in continuous publication?
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