Yep.The Story copyright was separate from the Artwork copyright, and things got complicated.
If I remember correctly, Denslow’s strip never mentioned Oz, except for the blurb about him being the artist from the book, so his use of the character images that he created was legal.
Yep.The Story copyright was separate from the Artwork copyright, and things got complicated.
If I remember correctly, Denslow’s strip never mentioned Oz, except for the blurb about him being the artist from the book, so his use of the character images that he created was legal.