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To: Brandonmark

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


4 posted on 06/05/2012 5:14:56 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: rlmorel
Hahaha...The Rat is serious about copyright infringement!

No, the lawyers are serious about Disney's potential liability if a non-employee is seen as being Disney staff, and takes advantage of the implied position of trust to (for example) molest a child on Disney property.

19 posted on 06/05/2012 5:20:40 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: rlmorel
The Rat didn't create the characters of Peter Pan or Tinkerbell. They didn't even have the first film adaptation.


78 posted on 06/05/2012 6:41:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: rlmorel
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.

90 posted on 06/05/2012 7:57:55 PM PDT by John Locke
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To: rlmorel
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.

96 posted on 06/05/2012 9:23:20 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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