What is the ruling on making toys for children, based on famous cartoon movies that have intellectual property rights, with a change in the names and characters of the original cartoons, if the toys do not contain prohibited content?

The fundamental ruling regarding complete cartoon images of living beings is prohibition. However, we issue a fatwa permitting the drawing and production of purposeful cartoons for children, for the benefit of their education and entertainment. As for intellectual property rights and innovation, they are owned by their proprietors, and it is not permissible to infringe upon them. If the games are copyrighted, then producing an identical imitation is Islamically forbidden. However, benefiting from the game's idea and its mechanism without identical imitation or superficial alteration is permissible. Imitation is the creation of the subject of an invention without the patent holder's consent. The criterion for verifying it lies in the similarities, not the differences. Imitation takes various forms, including imitating the invention in every aspect, or imitating it while changing its name or trademark, or imitating its internal components while changing the external shape and name, or benefiting from the invention's mechanism without adhering to the original inventor's steps. This last case is not considered an infringement on the inventor's right.