[lastchance]

I am not a fan of Disney. But businesses must (by law) defend copyright or trademark infringements or risk losing any claim to them. It does make them appear as Goliaths fighting Davids but honestly they kind of have no choice. One obvious solution is for Disney to waive fees they charge for such screenings when it shown at a school or non-profit.

[Mastador1]

Yup that's the same crapola I gave customers when they wanted something out on a Quaarter Pounder that didn't come on the 'trademarked' sandwich. All Disney had to do was send them a notice which waived the fee this time and an admonition that next time they would have to pay the fee or request a waiver prior to the event.

It's hard to beat Disney/ABC for greed, I actually know of only one company that does......Apple, especially under Jobs!

[Vigilanteman]

The licensees we worked with in Japan (not Disney) were more than happy to write a permission letter in cases like this. They were smart enough to realize that events of this nature generated goodwill and sales from which they DID make money.

We had only one malcontent which wanted his pound of flesh as well. He backed off when we told him how things worked in Japan and we would give him the payment and release him to find someone else to represent him going forward. He got his wire transfer for a little over $200 but never did business in Japan again,

[Gasshog]

Don’t mess with the Mouse!!!

School just needs to pay the Osama Tezuka estate since da Mouse stole it’s Lyin King from his Kimba the White Lion Manga.

[Gasshog]

Tezuka was such a fan of da Mouse his heirs just gave them the nod over Kimba/Simba rip off. The Japanese have such class and let that stand in contrast to these stinking assholes running Walt’s company now.

[DesertRhino]

Bill Murray doesn’t do this...ever.

[atomic_dog]

Exactly so. In a similar vein I had some fun back in the early to mid eighties when the MSM was calling Reagan the "Teflon President." Teflon is a registered trademark of DuPont and they are required to defend it or lose trademark protection as happened to Bayer with both aspirin and heroin.

So I made a little form letter that, anytime I saw the phrase "Teflon President" in a newspaper, I would send to DuPont and they would send the paper a cease and desist order and the paper would be forced to publish a retraction with an explanation. I would get a kick out of seeing this as I was easily amused back in the day.