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From: jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphical Copyright
Summary: More Disney copyright enforcement stories ...
Message-ID: <21750@hodge.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 20:09:01 GMT
References: <918@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK> <26076@dhw68k.cts.com>
Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corporation
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> In article <918@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK> everson@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK () writes:
>The central 7 machines on our local network here are named after the 7
>dwarves.  To create a label for each of them I drew (in fig) a small
>cartoon of each dwarf based on some pictures I found in some childrens
>books. What is the position regarding copyright on this - can I release
>these pictures as public domain clip-art?  
> 

	Several years ago in the city of Anaheim, CA (the city that Disney
	Land is located in, BTW), there was a hobby store not too far from
	Disneyland that painted a christmas scene on its front display window
	using the 7 Dwarves as "Santa's helpers".  Somebody from Disney got
	an eyeful of that and a lawsuit was instigated even before the poor
	guy was warned to remove the scene from his windows.

	I guess they are pretty hard on the people they can get at because
	they don't seem to be able to do much about the copyright infringements
	overseas.  I once bought a box of GO stones that were made in China 
	and the label bore a panda characture that looked amazingly like
	Mickey Mouse.  Ironically, I bought those stones in Anaheim, CA.


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