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On his past time hosting CBS’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert played 1 of nan astir iconic songs from nan Peanuts soundtrack.
“Oh no! I dream this doesn’t costs CBS immoderate money!” he joked, arsenic Louis Cato and nan Great Big Joy Machine performed nan song, titled Linus and Lucy, connected air. It was a last excavation astatine nan network, which galore fans judge cancelled nan show owed to Colbert’s criticisms of nan Trump administration.
It did, indeed, costs CBS. Lee Mendelson Film Productions, nan California institution that controls jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi’s famed Peanuts catalog and had go progressively litigious complete unauthorized uses of nan music, announced it had reached a licensing statement pinch CBS for an undisclosed amount. The accumulation institution said it would donate each proceeds to World Central Kitchen, nan disaster-relief nutrient nonprofit founded by cook José Andrés.
Colbert besides donated $2.5m to World Central Kitchen during nan penultimate section of nan Late Show.
“LMFP recovered nan music’s usage connected The Late Show funny and entertaining, and is proud to support World Central Kitchen’s mission,” said Jason Mendelson, president of nan company. “A main extremity of our enforcement actions is to amended individuals, businesses, and authorities entities astir nan request to get written licence agreements to usage euphony successful a commercialized setting.”
The institution had precocious taken ineligible actions complete nan unlicensed usage of Guaraldi’s Peanuts euphony by an apparel accessories manufacturer, a video crippled producer, a collectibles auction location and nan US Department of nan Interior, according to nan company.
The Bay Area-based institution was founded by shaper Lee Mendelson, who worked pinch Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz, animator Bill Melendez and Guaraldi connected nan animated Peanuts specials. Schulz himself was calved successful Minnesota, but had moved to Santa Rosa, California, successful 1969 and lived location until his decease successful 2000.
