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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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John Freeman 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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