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Let the fans do it

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Jesse TillyPerson was signed in when posted
10-14-2002
03:13 PM ET (US)
 Heh. I apparently wasn't clear in my sarcasm. I was saying Disney ignored the Suess Enterprises logic that "there is no financial incentive to build things based on works in the public domain".

Anyway, I'll get back to making my version of "Pleasure Island".

Jesse
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DopPerson was signed in when posted
10-14-2002
10:35 AM ET (US)
 Anyone CAN make an amusement park based on Snow White. Anyone can make a Snow White movie and many have. Disney don't own the copyright on Snow White as the story had passed into the public domain long beforehand.
Admittedly, your Snow White amusement park would have anonymous dwarves, as Disney DO own the copyright to any dwarves named Dopey, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, Doc and the other two I don't remember - because they made those up, the dwarves in the original story not being named.
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Jesse Tilly
10-14-2002
12:27 AM ET (US)
 I've always thought the "Who would reprint these works?" argument was one of the lamest legal arguments supposedly intelligent men could hang their case on. By their argument, because anyone could make an amusement park based on Snow White, no one would want to do it. I think we all know who's benefitting right now from ignoring this "logic".

Hollywood *prefers* to publish works based on public domain due to the utter lack of legal issues. I thought such public hypocritical and disconnected arguments came from legal teams hired by Microsoft, not ancient corporate stalwarts like the movie studios. Goes to show you can never make assumptions.

On a side note, I'm embarassed for the Suess family to see their foundation so prominent in maintaining the corporate status-quo. Apparently they don't have enough 'incentive' to reread "The Lorax" enough to understand the horrors of corporate greed.
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