Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 02, 2003 10:32 PM
"The only Fair Use of a copyright is to browbeat the members of your community into submission!"
We just had a good example of this here in Denmark. A 40 (I think) year old childrens book called "Gummi Tarzan" (gummi = rubber) has got a new name "Gummi T" after beeing sued by Disney (they settled out of court - even though the experts seem to believe that Disney did'nt have a case).
Every kid in Denmark has read the book, seen it performed as a play or seen the movie. The book is about a thin, weak kid who is being bullied. Suddenly he gets a chance to get strong and...
Well, I'll stop now. My point is that this is misuse of copyright:-)
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Re:You are opening yourself up for a lawsuit!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 02, 2003 10:32 PMWe just had a good example of this here in Denmark. A 40 (I think) year old childrens book called "Gummi Tarzan" (gummi = rubber) has got a new name "Gummi T" after beeing sued by Disney (they settled out of court - even though the experts seem to believe that Disney did'nt have a case).
Every kid in Denmark has read the book, seen it performed as a play or seen the movie. The book is about a thin, weak kid who is being bullied. Suddenly he gets a chance to get strong and...
Well, I'll stop now. My point is that this is misuse of copyright:-)
Btw. Lawrence Lessig has a note about it in his weblog: http://lessig.org/blog/
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