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Disney franchises into...EVIL!Peter Pan needed a prequel* like Walt Disney needed another copy of Mein Kampf. Still, there are unsettled details. "Peter and the Starcatchers" cannot be published anywhere in the European Union because that would violate the copyright of the original "Peter Pan" story, which is held by the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in Britain. Barrie, the "Peter Pan" author, donated the copyright to the hospital in 1929. In 1987, 50 years after his death, the copyright expired. The following year, Parliament extended the copyright in Britain in an attempt to give royalties to the hospital in perpetuity. But actions by the European Union to standardize copyright terms mean that the Peter Pan copyright will expire in 2007 in all of the union's other member nations. That is, unless the hospital succeeds in another venture. It is now soliciting ideas for a sequel to Peter Pan, one that it hopes will extend the copyright on the central characters for 70 more years. Mr. Barry professes unconcern about the copyright questions. "The good news is the sick children will get none of our money," he said last month - jokingly, of course. And he professes full faith in the Disney lawyers: "We figured the people who will kill you if you use Mickey Mouse without permission would be the best ones to figure it out." Note: the above headline is misleading as "EVIL" is actually a registered subsidiary of Disney Corp and has been since 1948. Home
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Disney battle gets excitinzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzListen, if an article about Disney* doesn't contain at least one reference to the evil trade in children's minds and souls, I'm not interested. But you might be. (I recently picked up a Today's Parent supplement at a local kiddie hotspot only to find that EVERY advertisement in it was by Disney. Guess who will now only every pick up TP to wipe his ass... Hey, that's clever!) Home
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"It is now soliciting ideas for a sequel to Peter Pan, one that it hopes will extend the copyright on the central characters for 70 more years."
Nonsense. Copyright law doesn't work that way, in any country. You cannot renew copyrights just by writing a sequel, and anyone who tells you otherwise simply doesn't know what he's talking about.
The only way to keep extending copyrights indefinitely is to pay one's legislators a lot of money to enact a new extension every so often (like Disney does). This new hospital-approved novel will have its own copyright, extending into the distant future, but any elements that appeared in the original play or novel by J.M.Barrie - such as Peter, Wendy, Tink, Hook, Neverland - are still (depending on your local jurisdiction) either in the public domain, or due to become public-domain at the end of 2007. At that point, the only place where there any restrictions on Peter Pan is the UK, where you can do whatever you want with him, but you have to pay the hospital for the privilege.
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Edited by author 05-13-2005 11:03 AM
Do you like Kipling?I don't know I've never kippled. LATimes reporter waxes eloquent on his stint as Mowgli at Disneyland in the 1960s. Home
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Disney Sweatshops: New Theme Park Opens in ChinaDisney has queitly opened a reality theme park in Guangdong province, China. Here, teenage summer students dress up like poor Chinese factory workers and print off very badly written, garishly illustrated "books." The conveyor belt ride costs pennies, apparently, and visitors report a feel-good atmosphere as a result of the alms-giving component toward the end. Home
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Beware of racially obnoxious whites in north america who cannot bear truths and especially from nonwhites as the whites are small stone cowards full of narrow-minded jealousy, hatred, and unwarranted obstacle and disturbance creation in the name of competitiveness; incapability in the name of innocence,ignorance, and arrogance; immaturity in the name of white christianity; bias in the name of privilege; trespassing, infiltration, colonialism, and wars, in the name of business, technology, education, and job creation; weaklingness in the name of networking; financial freedom in the name of loan-dependence; in between the lines talks, embedded nonsense, and mind games, in the name of politeness, decency, and smartness; neighborhood harassment in the name of neighborhood watch; human rights and privacy violations in the name of unpermitted selfish impositions of security and protection; a culture full of provocation, infiltration, and mean-spiritedness, increasing their karmas in the name of if you ain't white you ain't right; Bravo the immature predatory white war oriented competitive rat race! http://www.topix.com/forum/world/TANLIDS431DC05FGF |
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