Image from the R. Crumb v. Amazon Case Found

Seattlest first commented back in December about the news of the R. Crumb lawyer suing Amazon over an alleged infringement of the "Keep on Truckin'" property, but the image in question couldn't be found online. Now that a copy has finally been secured (see above), the opinion that the case may be totally frivilous is now reinforced. To quote the December 30th post:

...The amazon character (no example could be found online) was so heavily altered that it bore little resemblance to Crumb's original source, which probably qualifies it for the strong legal precedence of protection under the Fair Use clause of the First Amendment...

Seattlest employs no legal scholars or trademark law experts on staff but its kind of hard to believe Amazon's use of this image seriously diminishes the merchandising value of Crumb's intellectual property. Since the reclusive artist lives without a computer in southern France, its doubtful he's even seen the disputed image in question.