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The full-color daily strips and recolored Sunday strips are copyrighted to Paws as they are considered a different product. The strip is currently distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Press Syndicate and Universal Uclick), while rights for the strip remain with Paws, Inc. By 2015, the company employed almost fifty ...
Garfield is a property of Paws, Inc. That being said, Jim Davis and Paws has been rather lenient towards memes and parodies spread across the internet, and Garfield without Garfield, began as a parody that was officially released by Paws, Inc.
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Paws Incorporated (legally known as Paws, Inc.) is a comic studio and production company owned by Jim Davis and ViacomCBS through Nickelodeon. Paws Inc. is home to the Garfield which also spun off another comic strip, U.S Acres. Originally, United Feature Syndicate held all the rights to the Garfield comic strips but this only includes the black and white strips. All colored strips are copyrighted by ViacomCBS.
In August 2019, ViacomCBS purchased the rights to Paws, Inc which also includes merchandise. Jim Davis will continue to create comic strips for Garfield.
also known as Paws, Inc., is an American comic studio and production company founded by American cartoonist Jim Davis in 1981 to support the Garfield comic strips and its licensing. The company was originally located in Davis' home state of Indiana. Its building was established in Muncie in 1989, relocated from Davis' own farm when he was a boy.
In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the classic Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate, although United still holds the original black-and-white daily strips and original color Sunday strips. The full-color daily strips and recolored Sunday strips are copyrighted to Paws as they are considered a different product. The strip is currently distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Press Syndicate and Universal Uclick), while rights for the strip remain with Paws, Inc. By 2015, the company employed almost fifty artists and administrators.
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A copyright has a “term” or length, depending on when the work itself was created. For works created after January 1, 1978, the term of copyright is the life of the author plus 70 years or, if the work is a Work-for-Hire, the term is 95 years from first Publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first.
Background. Paws, Inc. is a comic production company and studio founded by Jim Davis, the creator of the Garfield comics and franchise, in 1981 in Muncie, Indiana. In 2019, it was acquired by Viacom (now known as Paramount Global). Paws is currently based in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.
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The winning design (a version created by Paul Witzkoske) [5] is a field of simple horizontal stripes with a paw print in the upper left corner — a layout similar to the leather pride flag. The colors represent the furs of different bear species throughout the world as a sign of inclusivity. [2] It is trademarked. [6]
