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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: There's No Fun At Pixar
Message-ID: <1681@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 05:12:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 05:12:50 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 04:40:53 EDT
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Just heard that Leo's been told by Pixar not to distribute his animation
public domain as it would be copyright infringement (something I would
say is pretty questionable).  I'd say this just shows you what kind of 
humorless prima-donna's inhabit Pixar.  If the bozos at Pixar
had any brains, they'd realize that Leo's animation going public domain
is as good for them as it is for the Amiga.  And I figured it would be
a good 'resume' item if Leo was to apply for a job at Pixar, figuring
they'd be impressed that this kid could come up with such a demo in
such a short time.  Instead, these guys pretend they have a corner on 
images of red unicycles.  And I guess you all better stay away from 
images of Luxo lamps as well, *BAH*!  

Personally, I don't think they have a snowballs chance of stopping Leo
if he want's to distribute his animation public domain.

1) I'd say it's pretty doubtful they could win a suit.  The most that
   could happen is they could generate some kind of court order to
   remove it from the thousands of BBS's it could be on before they
   could get the order.  In addition, I doubt such a 'derivative work'
   is protected by the copyright on 'Red's Dream', Pixar is just trying
   to strongarm Leo into witholding the animation because they take
   themselves so darn seriously their sense of humor has flown the
   coop.  Well HA HA Pixar, that's pretty funny, you just made a
   colossal fool out of yourselves on this one as far as I'm concerned.

2) It's not worth their while to bring a suit against Leo even if they
   could win.  They're not likely to get much in damages from Leo
   (assuming they could prove damages) and the resultant publicity would
   be more damaging to their image (already falling in my opinion)
   then the distribution of the animation itself.


Keith Doyle
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