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commercialization
"Bill's very protective of his characters, and never allowed any commercialization or use of them in any way."
This isn't commercialization -- commercialization in this case would be using Hobbes to sell Opus merchandise. This is just parody, which is protected under the First Amendment as a form of free speech. Breathed may have run it by Watterson first as a courtesy, but he didn't need to. I somehow doubt any lawsuits will be filed -- Berke's used Guisewite's "Cathy" and Mark Slackmeyer from "Doonesbury" as well.