Ok, I got a new project and I need to clarify this:
Does the 'Dancing Banana' is Copyrighted!?!?!
Wikipedia says:
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The Dancing Banana (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Jelly, or Humba the Banana) is a popular emoticon. By late 2001, the banana was already being used on several forums as a standard emoticon. Most of these forums would replace the typed text ":banana:" with the graphical image. As the popularity of the banana grew, hundreds of variations of the image had been created for forums or other purposes. These new images typically would have to be either uploaded or linked to, instead of replacing text. There is also a dancing pickle, carrot, apple, onion, taco, broccoli, Sonic the Hedgehog, Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, Megaman, and Coach Z, among many others. The Dancing Banana soon made its way to television shows and began to appear as an icon in American pop culture.
but I found:
Quote:
Peanut butter jelly time : It's peanut butter jelly time : PBJT : The...
Type of Work: Motion Picture
Registration Number / Date: PAu003077928 / 2006-07-20
Title: Peanut butter jelly time : It’s peanut butter jelly time : PBJT : The dancing banana.
Copyright Claimant: Ryan Etrata, Kevin Flynn
Date of Creation: Not given on appl.
Authorship on Application: animated audiovisual work: Ryan Etrata, 1982-, & Kevin Flynn, 1982-.
Copyright Note: Cataloged from appl. only.
Other Title: It’s peanut butter jelly time
PBJT
The dancing banana
Names: Etrata, Ryan, 1982-
Flynn, Kevin, 1982-
12-22-2008, 02:52 PM
Dancing Banana
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