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Originally Posted by Pat Braden Jerry, You must have gotten your car back since we haven't had any new cartoons lately. Someone must have forgotten the bribe payment to the mechanic. You will be happy to know that your work is protected in California, I don't know about the other 49 states. I tried several places today to try and have image #12 put on a shirt to wear to the convention, the answer I got everywhere from low-priced to high-priced was not without a copyright release from the creator. It was obvious to anyone wherever I tried that it was intellectual property and therefore fell under copyright laws. Yes, I was honest when they asked me how I got the picture and explained the situation; these are the same people that printed Patty's picture of Pat on my shirt last year; the difference, she was my daughter; and even though this was posted to the Internet, it is still protected by copyright to the creator. I'm not surprised, somewhat disappointed, but didn't expect them to pick up on it or request what they did to be able to use it. So for all of you that scoffed at the two CarDisc threads about copyright and have commented on Pat's work being copyrighted that has appeared in The Owner under a one-time use provision, both of those show registered copyright marks; here's one without a printed copyright, but assumed to be copyrighted and protected under intellectual property and copyright provisions. A lesson to us all....about it's importance and that some companies do care about abiding by the law; not at all meant to intimate that I was trying to break it. Jerry, knew I was going to have a shirt made for the convention.