The BBC reported that Paws Incorporated, which licenses Garfield in the United States and bills itself as the worldwide headquarters of the
wisecracking comic strip cat, is going after three China firms for
publishing illegal Garfield books. Garfield's latest U.S. book is
Garfield Survival of the Fattest: His 40th Book by Jim Davis (Ballantine).
This is not the first time publishers in China have been accused of
publishing illegal books. A publisher in China was accused of publishing
bogus Harry Potter novels in 2002 with names like Harry Potter and Leopard Walk up to Dragon.
