Re: Disney and copyright

From: Kenneth Hurst (k_hurst18@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 00:19:13 MDT


On Thursday, July 18, 2002 at 8:34 AM, Amara Graps wrote:

> Disney protects their copyrights to-the-extreme. For example:
> Consultants are not permitted to write in their resume that they
> performed work for Disney, because it 'uses' (I don't remember the
> legal term) the Disney name.

Another example of this was when Disney threatened a preschool with a
lawsuit for showing a Disney movie to a class full of schoolchildren. They
claimed this violated their copyright by showing the movie to a "large
audience" without paying for it. That's just being a bit too anal about
copyrights if you ask me.



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