Re: Mickey Mouse

From: Doug Groh (douggroh@rapid.com)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 18:37:35 EET


Perfect:
I love it when the lawyers make a big deal over something and wind up tripping
over there ties. Didn't they accomplish something good for the company! Ha! I'll
bet the parents of those kids don't buy a lot of Disney stuff.
Doug Groh

"Eifert, Dan" wrote:

> The interesting ending to that story was that Universal Studios heard about
> the school and sent some of their own artists to the school to help paint
> over the Disney characters and replace them with Looney Tunes which
> Universal owns. So instead of Mickey, Minnie and that gang the kids enjoyed
> Bugs Bunny and his gang.
>
> -
> Dan Eifert
> Electronic Packaging
> Lockheed Martin M&FC-Orlando
> Ph - 407/356-5789
> Fax - 407/356-6725
> Email - dan.eifert@lmco.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doty Mike [mailto:uq607848@hsc.hac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:21 PM
> To: adler@a3dm.com; rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi; finelt@optonline.net
> Subject: RE: Mickey Mouse
>
> An example of the lengths to which Disney defends its copyrights was in
> Florida in the 80's. A daycare center had a mural on one of its playground
> walls with disney characters. Disney threatened legal action to make them
> either paint it over or pay royalties.
>
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