Editing Cheburashka (section)

==Copyright issues==
[[File:Cheburashka A.V. Alfeevskiy (illustration) 1965.jpg|thumb|Cheburashka in 1965, in the first edition of the book.]]
The rights to the Cheburashka character and image have been heavily debated in court.<ref>Sheveleva, Aleksandra (13 December 2006). "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_6176000/6176377.stm Чебурашку разбирают в суде]" (in Russian). [[BBC News Online]]. Retrieved 2009-12-11.</ref> In 1994, [[Eduard Uspensky]] (the writer) copyrighted the character's name and image and proceeded to sell the rights to various countries. [[Leonid Shvartsman]], the art director of the animated films, has tried to prove in court that he was the creator of Cheburashka's visual appearance and that this copyright should be separate from the rights for the literary character. On 13 March 2007, Shvartsman and his lawyer lost a 4.7 million ruble lawsuit against BRK Cosmetics and Eduard Uspensky. Shvartsman alleged that Uspensky illegally sold the rights to the Cheburashka image (which was allegedly not his to sell) to BRK Cosmetics, which used it on toothpaste packaging. The defence argued that the artist who drew the character for the toothpaste had never seen the animated films and had created the character himself after the impressions left from reading Uspensky's books. Shvartsman  argued that the character on the packets was allegedly an exact copy of the one in the animated films. <ref>{{cite news|author=Anufrieva, Anna|date=13 March 2007|url=http://www.dp.ru/msk/news/money/2007/03/13/208133/|script-title=ru:Как заработать на Чебурашке|language=ru|work=Delovoy Peterburg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322054002/http://www.dp.ru/msk/news/money/2007/03/13/208133/|archive-date=22 March 2007}}</ref>