: Licensing for commercial use of fictional characters If I'm using an image of Pocahontas for commercial purposes, how do I go about researching what license I need to purchase? She is a historic

@Turnbaugh909

I think you'd have to obtain some type of consent to use a character based off something else you'd seen. Even the engraving of Pocahonats by Simon de Passe has some type of rights to it.

The Copyright Act protects against “derivate works” that use the copyrighted work as a jumping-off point in creating a new work. Changing Mickey’s pants from blue to red would still start with Disney’s work, so it would infringe its copyrights.

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