Baldr said:
vxicepickxv said:
Well, that's a rather rude surprise.
H:"Um, I've been working on this game with Mickey in it. This guy from your legal department sent me this e-mail for copyright infringement"
D:"Who the hell are you? Doesn't matter, just stop now."
H:"Well damn."
Disney Tokyo isn't exactly packed anymore, and it doesn't quite have the money it used to for legal teams.
As for the British case, I do believe there was a licensing arrangement worked out between the groups.
I seriously doubt that The Walt Disney company would enforce their copyright based on the Tokyo Disney Resorts attendance records.
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Well, the thing to understand is that the failure of a specific resort does not mean that the properties themselves don't have any value in those markets. There were a lot of reasons why Disney's international parks failed, and did not generate the expected attendance, one of them was a heavily limited amount of content, combined with very high prices, and an expectation that the Disney name would carry them. The resorts were attempted in places like Tokyo specifically because of the way the IPs were being handled.
While Disney's lawyers are bloodthirsty, when your dealing with free, fan-made creations like this I don't think they care unless they have gotten enough fame to get their attention. Basically if the whole "Mickey" thing had reached their ears due to millions upon millions of people playing the game, and the developers getting famous enough to make money even if they weren't making money directly off the game, then yeah, Disney might care.
The fairy tales calander doesn't seem to represent anything that made me think "Disney" per se. Disney does a lot of it's work off of public domain works like Fairy Tales, and classic stories. While you can recognize the stories the sexed up characters are from, none of them seem especially Disney-like. Probably the closest to a violation is the Arabian Nights one, given that Jasmine is a character of their creation to the best of my knowlege, but nothing there says it's Jasmine and sexed up Arabian Nights princesses and harem girls are nothing new.
Basically, I wouldn't rely on this being signs that Disney has chilled out, just that none of this is worth their time.
Of course then again, if you look at how the contreversy over Alan Moore's "Lost Girls" played out the type of suits Disney tends to engage in have suffered some losses and now have some counter-precedents to deal with. You sex up Wendy from Peter Pan, someone can point to "Lost Girls" and say "how is what I did differant, especially seeing as I didn't take it that far?"
Only time will tell, I think it's only a matter of time before Disney starts another fiasco. I've heard allegations that there have been a lot of people wanting to cash in on the whole "Pirates Of The Carribean" thing by doing their own fantasy pirate movies, and have run into problems due to similarities, which is why we haven't run into a slew of attempts to knock it off.... which is a shame, because as a genere/style I think there is a lot that can be done with it, especially in a less tongue-in-cheek way. It's possible that Disney is busy on that front, despite the last movie (which apparently still made substantial bank).
