Re: Mickey Mouse

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

there's nothing new under the sun, of course. The arrogance of Disney _et al_
is to declare something "new" and to make it their intellectual property (e.g., 
suing the Oscars for appropriating Snow White).

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ravi [mailto:gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Mickey Mouse
> 
> 
> Devine, James wrote:
> > did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the
> > way he did with his animators?
> >
> 
> lawrence lessig, in a talk at princeton, suggested that the character
> (mickey mouse) was copied from an existing one (buster keaton's
> 'steamboat bill') for 'steamboat willie'.
> 
> lessig thinks such reproduction is a good thing, of course.
> 
> http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/000788.shtml
> 
>         --ravi
>