Tinker Bell costume causes trouble at Disney

Bay News 9 ^ | June 5, 2012 | Dalia Dangerfield

[UnwashedPeasant]

These are kids dressed in character costume. The Disney park sells kid’s character costumes.

They are obviously big fans and probably spent $1000s on their dream vacation, so I sympathize with them.

[Eastbound]

The cops must be awful busy on homo open house days.

[higgmeister]

Oh my word! Which one is Tinker Bell?!

[Celtic Conservative]

The only time Disney allows guests to wear costumes in their parks is during their Halloween parties(hard ticket, separate admission) and even then, If they consider the costume to be too similar to a cast members they will ask you to change or modify your look. It's more than just protecting their copyright, it's about maintaining their guest relations(and legal liability thereto).

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[MinorityRepublican]

She’s still cute, but that’s just IMHO.

[Cyber Liberty]

That looks like *every* branch on the way down. Cute for a kid, though.

[Tanniker Smith]

I wondered about that, too, but I assume the writer meant to include the entire trip in that process. Tickets to the park aint cheap.

As for the couple, the could probably dress up at any of the restaurants or at the Market Place, but it should have been a no-brainer that they wouldn't be allowed to walk around in costume. (Really, if it were allowed, well, I wouldn't say everyone would be doing it, but there'd be a lot of people doing it.)

[Celtic Conservative]

No, a 15 year old boy likes attention from girls. The girl that he wants attention from likes Peter Pan.

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[HereInTheHeartland]

“Hint: when a hot girl asks you to dress as Peter Pan, if you’re a dork, you answer “what color tights?””

Hah, hah!! Line of the week!!!

[John Locke]

Hahaha...The Rat is serious about copyright infringement!

The creator of Peter Pan, J M Barrie, bequeathed the rights to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children, which still holds them. Disney has never paid a red cent in royalties to the legitimate copyright owners. They pay millions to their lawyers to cheat sick and dying children.

Remember that the next time you think about buying a Disney product.

[rlmorel]

I am no fan of Disney, but that is pretty bad.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I live near Tampa so I get BayNews 9 and I just saw this girl describing how her “dream was crushed”. She was in tears. I would expect it from a 5-year-old but not a high-schooler.

Awww,poor baby. Grow up. You are in high school now.

If it’s a 15-year-old boy’s dream to dress up like Peter Pan and go to Disney then he is a big fag,or just immature.

[Noob1999]

What would Laz say???

[onedoug]

Hot?

Not.

[zeugma]

Hahaha...The Rat is serious about copyright infringement!

They've copyrighted tinkerbell?  That's quite a trick, since Peter Pan was published in 1904. I don't think Disney has managed to bribe enough congresscritters to extend copyright back quite that far.

Yet. Give them time, I'm sure eventually, Disney will claim copyright to stories by Grimm as well, as epics like Homer's Odyssey. It's only a matter of time untl there will be no such thing as the public domain, because only corporations will be allowed to own our literary heritage.

[zeugma]

I would not want someone impersonating my characters since I would have no control on how said impersonator would act.

Peter Pan was published in 1906. There is no copyright on the character, and you can't trademark tinkerbell.

[zeugma]

Copyright doesn’t last forever. Thank God. Copyright for Peter Pan and Tinkerbell expired sometime in the fifties. Most likely the year before Disney used them as characters. They did the same thing with Jungle Book.

[Vendome]

Well you caught me.

I’m blind and a lech

[John Locke]

The copyright in Peter Pan expired at the end of 2007. So Disney was in violation for 54 years. In that time, according to Wikipedia, the film has grossed over $87 million. Not one cent for the sick children.