Maybe we are going to jinx the city of Seattle by bringing it up, but not everything has to be expensive and litigious.
The price to license the use of Pac-Man's likeness to makeover a Seattle street: $0. "Turns out, a municipality can (probably) use all sorts of characters in its civic investments," according to a post on the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog.
According to a statement by the Seattle Department of Transportation shared on the post, the use of imagery from the popular Pac-Man game was all made possible by fair use. The SDOT even says that the city attorney's office signed off on the idea.
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