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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphical Copyright
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Date: 30 Aug 89 16:08:58 GMT
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In article <26076@dhw68k.cts.com> thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes:
>  Don't let Disney's lawyers get hold of you! There was an incident
>recently here in the US (don't recall the city) in which a nursery
>school had various Disney characters painted on a wall. When Disney
>found out, they forced the school to paint over the wall (or else...!)
>I suspect that they would not look favorably on their Heavily Copyrighted
>cartoon characters being released as "public domain" clip art. I also
>suspect that Disney has a lot more money than you do.
>
>  Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to court we go...

     This occured in Orlando, where Disney and Universal Studios are engaged
in a PR war.  Disney's studio tour has opened, and the Universal tour will
be ready soon.  When Disney forced the day care center to paint the wall,
Universal sent over artists to paint all the Hanna Barbera characters in
their place, and asked all the local TV crews to come along, too.

     Incidentally, if you are in Orlando (paying my state income taxes with
your tourist dollars) make sure to catch the Disney tour, if only to wander
through the animation building.  I recently got to watch them drawing the
new Roger Rabbit cartoon, "Rollercoaster Rabbit".  Just fascinating.  And,
to bring this back to comp.graphics, they have some Suns and (I think) an
SGI machine running Wavefront.


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