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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: disney
Message-ID: <3973@phri.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 18:31:13 GMT
References: <21726@cup.portal.com> <5251@alvin.mcnc.org> <1989Sep2.122906.17844@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu>
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In <1989Sep2.122906.17844@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu> sean@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu (Sean McLinden) writes:
> Disney had no choice but to block their unlicensed use of the characters

	It seems they could have done this in one of two ways.  The first
is the way they chose, i.e. make the school paint over the dwarves.  The
second would have been to license them to use the dwarves for the specific
purpose of decorating the wall in this one building, for, say, $1 per year
(and, as they always say in these sort of contracts, "other valuable
considerations").  Seems like the latter would have satisfied the
requirement to defend their copyright without having to play the bad guy.
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