Keep it" in what way? You can save a copy of it to your hard drive, if that's what you mean. You can't go around pretending that you drew the characters. Whether or not you can reprint it in another medium is kind of a legal gray area that we're not really sure about. So far we haven't done so, and I think you should probably ask the original artists for permission if you wanted to do something like that
so nobody has gotten a waiver from the orginal artists? on the one hand, im a lawyer, on the other hand, i'm crazy, retired, not licensed in stripcreatorland, so at most i ask questions and speculate. choadwarrior's character seems to be a suit, maybe he'd have an opinion, more likely wouldn't want to comment.
i just made a strip that raises some of the copyright issues, so i thought i'd check in.
[Click to view comic: 'The aardvark joins the syndicate']
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