On Friday, January 24, 2003 12:09 PM, Linda Gruber
[SMTP:linda[_at_]novelart.com] wrote:
> Disney does its job so well that no artist could illustrate the story of
> Cinderella without
> being unfavorably compared to Disney. In the public's mind, Disney's
> Cinderella will
> always be the "real" Cinderella.
Not in mine!
Nor will that hideous yellow thing ever be Winnie-the-Pooh to me.
But Disney's cultural imperialism has usurped Shepherd's delicate drawings
of the real Pooh from much of the popular imagination.
I am a strong supporter of copyright; but despite, not because of Disney. To the extent that their global dominance is owed to copyright it is an unfortunate side-effect of providing reasonable and fair protection for the underpaid majority of working authors and artists.
This majority is not helped by making it easier to copy Disney; but Disney itself might well be.
Edward Barrow
New Media Copyright Consultant
http://www.copyweb.co.uk/
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