User blog comment:Jay042/Wonder if we could include this character?/@comment-6417519-20140301232331

Personally, I think he seems pretty cool. However, just going viral doesn't mean PD or open sourced. The Slender Man is a good example of this. He seems like he should be PD (like The Rake) but, someone, somewhere actually owns him (not his creator, in fact nooone knows who does own him). Unless the creator of this Knitter character specifically adds an open source disclaimer or a creative commons licence, we can't just assume it's okay for anyone to use him. You could always message the creator (is it the Anna girl or the guy posing in the photos, it doesn't really make that clear as far as I can tell but, I don't follow tumblr so also don't know my way around) and ask if he or she or they would be willing to do that. I've done that before. More often that not, they say yes. :-)