You make a very good point, one that I have often pondered. What gives Disney
rights to these works.
I remember back in the 1970s Disney sued a local locksmith shop in Orlando who had been using a dwarf (Disney argued one of their 7 dwarves) in their adverts, a design the locksmith had been using since at least the 1950s. Talk about bullying! The locksmith couldn't afford to fight so Disney had an easy win.
Jim
> Are you similarly outraged that Disney got to use the public-domain works
> of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Rudyard Kipling,
> Victor Hugo, Hans Christian Andersen, etc. etc. etc. to make those films,
> while paying nothing for the stories?
Received on Thu Jan 23 2003 - 05:51:45 GMT
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