Posted on 10/18/2009 3:57:21 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
'Ho White and the Seven Dwarves' beer advert angers Disney
A beer advertisment featuring a ranchy version of Snow White has reportedly raised the ire of Disney.
Published: 7:00AM BST 16 Oct 2009
The link to Snow White in the advertisement has reportedly angered Disney. Photo: adelaidenow.com.au The x-rated advertisement, for Jamieson's Raspberry Ale, depicts the fairytale heroine blowing smoke rings while lying in bed with seven semi-clad dwarves.
In this Disney dystopia, Snow White has been renamed "Ho White", while the loveable dwarves Sleepy, Happy and Doc are rebranded Filthy, Smarmy and Randy - supposedly to represent different types of drinkers.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
How stupid does the ad agency have to be to think they could get away with this obvious copyright violation?
The Snow White copyright was done 72 years ago. Shouldn’t it be public domain now?
Copyright was never intended to be perpetual ...
And envy and pride grew higher and higher in her [the evil bitch stepmother queen's] heart like a weed, so that she had no peace day or night. She called a huntsman, and said, "Take the child away into the forest; I will no longer have her in my sight. Kill her, and bring me back her heart as a token." The huntsman obeyed, and took her away; but when he had drawn his knife, and was about to pierce Snow-white's innocent heart, she began to weep, and said, "Ah dear huntsman, leave me my life! I will run away into the wild forest, and never come home again."
And as she was so beautiful the huntsman had pity on her and said, "Run away, then, you poor child." "The wild beasts will soon have devoured you," thought he, and yet it seemed as if a stone had been rolled from his heart since it was no longer needful for him to kill her. And as a young boar just then came running by he stabbed it, and cut out its heart and took it to the Queen as proof that the child was dead. The cook had to salt this, and the wicked Queen ate it, and thought she had eaten the heart of Snow-white.
WOW! Things sure were less PC back the!
Don’t post that graphic again.,
it can’t be a copyright violation — Snow White and the 7 are a centuries old germanic/slavic fairytale.
How does Disney get a copyright to a centuries old fairy tale. How can I get a copyright on someone like Moses or Noah? There are more movies and books about these guys than snow white.
“How does Disney get a copyright to a centuries old fairy tale.”
I don’t think they copyright the tale: the copyright applies to their cartoon images, which are well-known and recognized. Thus, one cannot use these images (or alterations thereof) without permission etc. It’s precisely because people connect these cartoon images with Disney that people might reasonably assume Disney would have had to approve their use in these beer commercials. So I think it’s not implausible to claim that this “unfair use” does tarnish the company’s image.
As for the question of duration of copyrights:
“During the 1990’s the world’s two largest trading blocs, the European Union (1993) and the United States (1998) extended the term of protection for general copyright
by a further 20 years to life plus 70 years.”
http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/docs/ip_docs/pcda-3-public-domain/downloadFile/file/file?nocache=1177585957.71
Congress has ruled that Copyright lasts the (the number of years since the release of Steamboat Willie + X) years
Actually even the Brothers Grimm stories were toned down from the orginals.
They have lawyers.
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