(CN) - The family of Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer does not own a copyright or trademark to the classic big-eyed cartoon character, and cannot sue others for using her image, the 9th circuit ruled ...

Betty Boop, seductive cartoon character who wowed movie audiences in the 1930s, has become a new item on the home video circuit 50 years later. At least a half-dozen collections of original Betty Boop ...

Apparently the Fleischer estate has lost a court battle for the rights to Betty Boop, a character created by Grim Natwick at Max Fleischer’s studio in 1930. Fleischer Studios has been co-licensing ...

NEW YORK — In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time.

That curly black hair, those big green eyes, that little red dress. Betty Boop is still recognizable 85 years after her debut in the Dizzy Dishes cartoon that premiered on Aug. 9, 1930 as part of ...

Marilyn Monroe sang, “I wanna be loved by you—boop-boop-ee-doop” a la “Betty Boop” in “Some Like it Hot.” And now Betty Boop will be serving it hot in San Francisco with the bow of the first Betty ...