Reply #3: I thought that the publisher of the *Curious George* books owned the copyright.

[Fridays Child]

From this link:

The publishers of the book are considering legal action to stop further sale of the T-shirts.

Rick Blake of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (which owns Curious George) tells the Atlanta Journal no one has been authorised to use the image. "We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents," Blake says. "We're monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action."