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>The copyright on this image has been repeatedly violated, and it has been widely reproduced on T-shirts, posters, belt buckles, mudflaps, and other items. In the early 1970s, Crumb's lawyer started threatening lawsuits against anyone using the image without permission. Crumb and A.A. Sales, a producer of unlicensed Keep On Truckin' merchandise, reached a settlement of $750 for the past usage. But A.A. continued to sell unlicensed products after the settlement without paying additional license fees. In 1973, Crumb went to the U.S. Federal Court, and wound up in the courtroom of Judge Albert Charles Wollenberg, who had previously ruled against the Air Pirates. A.A. Sales claimed the work was in the public domain, because Crumb had not included the copyright symbol on the work, although he had in Zap #1 as a whole. The work was covered under the 1909 Copyright Act, and any omission of notice caused the work to be public domain. The drawing had appeared on the business card of Crumb's publisher without the copyright symbol. Based on that, Wollenberg granted A.A. Sales' request for summary judgment and Keep On Truckin' became public domain. In 1977, the Ninth Circuit Court reversed that decision, and it returned to copyrighted status.[2]
>The Internal Revenue Service pursued Crumb for thousands of dollars of taxes owed, as if he had been collecting royalties all along.[3] Recently, Crumb has sued various entities to defend the copyright, including Amazon.com in 2005.[4]
Faggot, I think you'd be pretty fucking fragile after being ass-raped for five decades. Keep On Truckin' patches, t-shirts and posters were advertised in every comic in the seventies, it was like the smiley face or the Bat symbol. He never saw a cent of that money.