Posted on 02/06/2020 9:15:57 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
I thought if you owned the video or dvd, you could show it as you pleased. Maybe the issue is because the school charged a fee for the event. Okay. Then my question is, how did they find out?
Bill Murray doesn’t do this...ever.
ABC is Disney
Dude, he was long dead before the Lyin King was made.
My point being Disney stole his intellectual property with impunity was given forgiveness from his Estate, but they show no mercy to anyone else.
I used to work for the Anaheim Theme Park. One of my pals transferred up to the legal department, in Burbank. He reported back that they have an entire floor of lawyers, and new guys spend their first year, threatening to sue people, for any transgressions, no matter how petty. . . .
Osamu Tetskuka had ample opportunities to act the jerk while his was yet alive as he outlived Walt by nearly a quarter century, but he passed.
Most DVDs have something like this on the package and on the first screen when playing it: “This DVD disc is being purchased for personal use only. It is not licensed for public screenings or for institutional use.” Usually they also have prohibitions on rent it out too. They would love to prevent selling used ones but the law explicitly allows resale of physical media.
Yeah, there was a hot dog stand around here that for years was “Donald Duck’s Red Hots” with a picture of the cartoon character. They must have gotten a lawyer letter at some point, because now they are just “Duk’s Red Hots” with no cartoon character.
A few months ago they denied a family the right to put Spider Man on the grave of their five year old. They are heartless. But then, it’s Hollywood where fake virtue signaling means not having to actually live a virtuous or caring life.
Not Disney but a similar case of overreaching in protecting the corporate brand. About 15 years ago there was a Filipino restaurant in Baltimore named Sony’s. Sony Corporation sued them to change the name. It was the restaurant owner’s first name ! Ridiculous!
A day care pre-school where I used to live had hand drawn Disney-ish characters painted on their outside wall, and not very well done, since it was am amateur job.
Disney made them paint over them........................
Mind you, my view of copyright is one of contempt. “Limited time” is the constitutional limitation which is currently set at the creator’s lifetime plus 70 years. In exchange for protection for copyrighted works, it is supposed to fall to the public domain after. This is a trade between creators and the public and it is insulting that no one who was born when Snow White in 1937 will possibly like a long enough to see it turned to the public domain.
They will live their entire life paying for the protection and maybe, just maybe, their great grandchildren might be able to watch it without having to pay a few to Disney.
It is a shackle upon creativity magnified in our technological world. We pay for it, but will never live long enough to complete the contract.
That said, the license fee for up to a hundred paying guests is less than $600 a year. If they did biweekly film showings (maybe even with shorts ahead of time or The Mandalorian) the PTA would be well funded.
They can bill all they want. Schools have governmental immunity unless stupid California stripped them of it.
Companies do this all the time. It’s their IP and the best way to lose protection is to fail to enforce licensing rules. Don’t believe me? Just go have a KC Chiefs party at a locsl pub or use any other sports team identity without permission.
This is what’s insane about it:
The fundraisers just put a DVD movie on just to entertain the kids. Just about every daycare I have seen does this. Some are even streaming Netflix to the kids.
Disney would have to go after every daycare in America.
They will......................
He is a decent chap.
And thus did anime replace US cartoons...
The people running Disney now are not just stinking a’holes. They are the major contributor to the corruption of children. Evil.
This from the people that ruined Star Wars...
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