King Features Syndicate Inc and Segar v O and M Kleemann Ltd S was the author of a large number of drawings or cartoons depicting as the central figure a grotesque and fictitious character known as “Popeyeâ€ or “Popeye the Sailor,â€ and it was admitted that if there was copyright in these drawings or cartoons, which were published from 1929 onwards in the United States of America and simultaneously in Canada, it was vested in the plaintiffs or one of them.