They don't have rights to the original works. That is
why I have a large collection of non-Disney versions
of every Disney movie my kids have. I want them to
know that the Disney version is not the only, not the
best, and clearly not the original version of the
story.
They are not hard to find.
keith
- Kernow62[_at_]aol.com wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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Received on Fri Jan 24 2003 - 16:42:03 GMT