A friend of mine sent me to Garfield minus Garfield a few months back. It’s a slightly bizarre and surreal showing of Garfield comic strips where the lead character, Garfield the cat, is removed from the cartoon, leaving only his owner Jon Arbuckle. The result is that it totally changes the meaning of some of the strips, leading to a sort of… existential despair…
Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield isn’t bothered by it. In fact, he seems to enjoy it, having thanked the creator of the site, and noted that it made him go back and look at the entire body of Garfield comics in a very different light.
Techdirt: Sad: We’re Thrilled That A Content Creator Isn’t Suing Over A Derivative Work
Right. The copyright owner needs to be enlightened for this to happen, but I think a real driver here is that the derivative work is REALLY GOOD. That helps…
And, of course, in this example G-G is highly non commercial.
