Tories agree to pay artist after using Burnham cartoon without permission
The Conservatives have agreed to pay illustrator Stanley Chow after using his Andy Burnham cartoon on conference bottles without permission. The settlement followed a legal threat from the artist.
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The Conservative Party has agreed to pay illustrator Stanley Chow after using his Andy Burnham cartoon on conference water bottles without permission, following a legal threat from the artist.
The bottles portrayed Prime Minister Burnham as a “bottler”. Chow said on Facebook that the party had settled after using his image without permission and added that it should have asked first. He said he would have refused, and that commissioning a new illustration would have cost the party less.
The BBC reports that the Conservatives agreed to pay a £1,000 fee to use the image and contributed an undisclosed amount towards Chow’s legal fees. The party said it considered the matter closed and valued intellectual property in the creative industries.
Chow created the cartoon in 2021. Burnham has also used the image on social media.
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