However, I think some organizations take this to a whole new level (Disney). The Disney Corporation is out for blood when anything Disney is used without permission. For instance, we spoke a while back about how a day care center in Florida painted the several Disney characters on the side of their garage. When Disney found out, they threatened to sue the day care if they did not paint over their garage immediately.
I am interested to see what happens to the Copyright laws when we hit the year 2020 or so... just under 70 years since Walt Disney passed.
I really hope Disney's efforts to keeping their intellectual property under their own copyright eventually get thwarted. They've basically browbeaten legislators into changing the laws every time their copyright has come close to running out, but the problem is that it's not just Mickey Mouse that's being effected, it's everything. Not exactly the image of copyright that the creators of the concept had.
ReplyDeleteThat sh*t is gross, Disney has this chokehold on their empire and it's fricken huge! I think they will find a way around it, though. I mean, they're Disney! Can you imagine a world without the Disney empire? I really can't.
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