If you can thınk it, you can probably license it

A FONT Astounder Squared BB

Rhode Island–based Blambot.com’s most popular font with professionals was designed by owner Nate Piekos. He charges a one-time fee for a perpetualuse license, which covers print, some web, and video.

A CHARACTER Mickey Mouse

Walt Disney’s cartoon rodent, created in 1928, is the company’s No. 1 character franchise in global sales. Mickey Mouse watches appeared in 1933.

TECHNOLOGY Zeamster

A secure online-payment tool created and co-owned by CEO Kevin Shamoun, Zeamster had 10,000 monthly paying licensees in North America in 2015 and twice that in 2016.

His Detroit-based firm projects a 60 percent increase this year.

AN ICON Lucille Ball

Lucy Ricardo, the title character of I Love Lucy, working haplessly in a chocolate factory is just one of the enduring images from this 1950s sitcom, which is still actively licensed by CBS.

MUSIC Thermionic"

The Vault, part of Stephen Arnold Music, un Dallas licenses music like this Jeffrey Woodall electronica track, to brands and networks. The firm issued 700 licenses last year, about 30 percent for websites, videos, and other digital media.