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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They semi-recently made an entire show using the old character styles presumably to muddy the legal waters and allow them to do exactly that...so I would assume so.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just once I would love for a judge to just go "You know what? It's obvious what your company is doing here, so rather than attempt to receive this information in good faith, since it's not being OFFERED in good faith, we can go ahead and say you lose, and now owe punitive damages to every artist you've sued over the years over a couple circles. "

But no, they pretend that corporations are people.

I'll believe they're people when I finally see one executed, or taxed, or imprisoned, or face any of the consequences normal people do. You can't argue the idea of a comoany has personhood and then walk that back any time it comes to punishment.

Fuck disney

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Surely, any company that has made a financial decision to not fix something because fixing it is more expensive than paying compensation to the relatives of people they kill should be guilty of murder.

If they kill more than five or ten people it would be mass murder and probably subject to the death penalty.

Boeing would be getting worried right now if this was how it worked.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also have been using the steamboat Willie clip as part of their intro, presumably for the same reason.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Trademark doesn't have an expiration if they're still using it, so they would argue that you're violating their trademark instead of their copyright.