I saw donald-duck.com being snapped when it dropped today. I was at one moment wondering if I should backorder it and maybe build a fansite with googleads, but then the issue of copyrights came to mind and I let it go.
Did I do the right thing?
seth_wilde
9:11 pm on Sep 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
Sounds like a hassle more than anything.. Disney is very fond of legal action.. I've gotten a C&D for using a picture of Mickey on a page about Disney cruises..
tedster
10:19 pm on Sep 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
Seth has it right -- Disney is extremely aggressive in protecting their IP. They are right up there with Harvard University and the Olympic Committee. Who needs that hassle?
By the way, as one of my clients found out recently, Disney now owns Winnie the Pooh and they are very clued in on that property also.
chrisnrae
10:20 pm on Sep 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
I third the don't mess with Disney statement. They don't play when it comes to trademark infringement. Online or offline. They got into it with a local children's hospital here over a mural they had done on the hospital walls featuring disney characters - they later had to paint the trademarks in.
drbrain
10:35 pm on Sep 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
They'll even sue over fair-use uses of their trademarks (like parodies). You can probably find evidence of this in the seedier sections of the internet. (Not to mention the Mickey Mouse aka Sonny Bono Copyright Act.)
