- Under questioning by French police in 1980, Paul Marciano admitted that he ordered the unauthorized printing of at least 1,400 shirts with pictures of Snoopy, the Peanuts cartoon character. A French civil court ordered a Marciano-owned store to pay cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and United Feat...
Yoshida said the initiative to beef up Sony's content was also behind a deal announced earlier this month to acquire a stake in Peanuts Holdings, the company behind Snoopy and Charlie Brown. But Yoshida stopped short of giving numbers for profit goals, saying he was presenting a long-term vi...