User talk:Elcobbola/Stuffed Animals
Copyright-friendly plushies[edit]
A challenge: can we find some stuffed animal on the market which is definitely in the public domain? It would be a great gift or purchase for the m:Wikimedia Cuteness Association and inject some more copyleft geekiness in its scope.
You could go around and shop for vintage plushies, then verify their copyright status; but I suspect it's easier to go the other way round. A lot of toys were presumably produced without copyright registration or formalities back in the day, but without an official record it's hard to identify exactly when they entered the market and how.
Some searches might be: teddy bear, textile puppet/toy, plush. Some possibly relevant results can be found in these volumes: "teddy+bear" [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11].
A vintage Rushton company teddy bear may be the same teddy bear with a red bow tie as in the copyhright registration. Not sure if this Filbert the frog is the right one from 1961. The Shackman ones are rarely listed as such or are unavailable.
Funnily, the article w:en:Daniel Jacoby is about a copyright lawyer, not the author if plushies designs of the 1960s for Shackman. Nemo 08:37, 13 September 2019 (UTC)