The legal goings-on this week regarding Peanuts require a bit of a preface: while Peanuts Worldwide (or really Peanuts Holdings) owns Peanuts, they don’t own everything Peanuts. Lee Mendelson Film Productions has rights regarding the classic TV and film material. If I understand correctly (and that’s a real caveat, there are so many things in this world that I don’t understand), they own the rights to all that great Vince Guaraldi music, both the rights to the compositions (i.e., what you see when you see sheet music) and the recordings. If you license the rights to Peanuts to make a product, you don’t automatically get to use the tune “Linus and Lucy” in it, you have to license that separately. Now, this is a valuable pile of music. Not only is it quite recognizable, but the soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas keeps returning to the record charts whenever Christmastime is here. Public domain image of a lawsuit being adjudicated This week LMFP launched a batch of lawsuits aimed…
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