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To: SJSAMPLE

Actually it does. Berkley Breathed found that out when he added “Mortimer Mouse” to his _Outland_ series. Disney had a chat with him, and Mortimer disappeared.


62 posted on 07/21/2009 12:31:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: ctdonath2

Mortimer Mouse wasn’t a “new” concept.

It was a thinly-disguised jab at Eisner and used a version/mutation of the original “Mortimer Mouse” that was Disney property.

At the time it/he came out, I thought it fell under “fair use” as social commentary, but apparently not. Maybe the use of the name became a direct infringement?


65 posted on 07/21/2009 12:36:45 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: ctdonath2

How did the let Tom & Jerry survive?


69 posted on 07/21/2009 12:41:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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