All they have to do is tell Disney that they screened the movie for LGBTQWERTY kids and all is well...................
Disney is famous for this kind of $#!+. When I lived in Japan, they forced a nursery school or two to paint over Disney characters on the stucco wall around their school. The trick was to paint cute artwork which did not quite look too much like the Disney characters.
See their money, Simba, one day it will all be Disney’s.
This is the worst PR blunder by a major corporation since Starbuck’s sued a tiny Russian Orthodox monastery for selling a “Christmas Blend” coffee, a description for which Starbucks claimed proprietary rights
“A proposed ballot initiative to reform California’s seminal Prop. 13 could mean millions more in fees on theme parks like Universal Studios and entertainment headquarters, aiding public schools. Will progressive Hollywood fight it?
For more than a century, Hollywood studios and networks have been among the largest land-owning entities in Southern California and, as such, have benefited from Proposition 13, the state’s seminal, voter-approved amendment that caps taxes at 1 percent of a property’s assessed value at purchase.
That could all change this year. An effort to overhaul Prop. 13 is gaining steam with the help of a coalition of backers that includes Mark Zuckerberg and the California Teachers Association. If the ballot measure is successful, it could slap The Walt Disney Co., along with WarnerMedia, Fox Corp., ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal and Sony, with tens of millions of dollars more in taxes. In 2019, Disney forked over an estimated $55 million-plus in property taxes for Disneyland alone.”
Public educational entities have very liberal “Fair-Use” exceptions to copyright restrictions.
Besides just the optics of this, Disney really is over-reaching on crap like this.
I don’t see anything wrong with Disney’s request. If you wanted to rent that school’s gym for an event, you’d have to pay a fee. So the school should have to pay a fee, especially since they charged admission.
Oh, wait. This happened in California, the something-for-nothing state. Never mind.
$250 ???
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?
ABC is Disney
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. . . .
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.
They can bill all they want. Schools have governmental immunity unless stupid California stripped them of it.
This from the people that ruined Star Wars...
I believe if the PA is anon-profit educational organization, they can tell Disney to pound sand, because there’s a explicit exemption in the copyright law for those organizations.
I’m OK with this. It’s all about protecting your intellectual property.
I work with a national youth character development organization. We have some trademarked things like logo’s etc. with strong branding use guidelines.
Trademark law is very clear that if we don’t protect the trademark, we may lose the rights to such protection.
$250 is pretty reasonable for a movie they charged full theater rates to sit on a gym floor to watch.
Dear Disney, please find enclosed a check for $250. Rest assured, the students in our district will be persuaded to never watch a Disney product again! Sincerely, The District Superintendent of Education
A suggested donation is not the same as charging admission....they should have no case!!!