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).
------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -----Original Message----- > From: ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 >
