Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele has hit out at Warner Bros. for allegedly using audio from his viral internet short in a MultiVersus advertisement “without permission”.
The teaser – initially posted to social media but since deleted – showed off Reindog’s Unicorndog skin, and was captioned “We’re going to Candy Kingdom to get the new Unicorndog Variant, Charlie!”
It was accompanied by a video of three Unicorndogs – just like the three unicorns in Steele’s video – which allegedly included audio taken directly from the Charlie the Unicorn short.
“MultiVersus is a game by Warner Bros, a company with an annual revenue of around $40bn,” Steele said on X, embedding Warner Bros subsidiary Player First Game’s tweet.
“Here they are using my work, without permission, to advertise their game.”
MultiVersus is a game by Warner Bros, a company with an annual revenue of around 40 billion dollars.
Here they are using my work, without permission, to advertise their game. https://t.co/t5LRznScdD
— Jason Steele (@FilmCow) December 22, 2024
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“I’m completely fine with people using my work for non-commercial projects. I’ve given explicit permission for this before and will continue to do so,” Steele explained in a follow-up Reddit thread. “I will never go after an individual for using clips from my work for something like a YouTube or TikTok video, or a Twitch alert, etc. People should be allowed to use and remix art!