2012-01-30, 21:21 | Link #1 |
Paper-Fan of DOOM!!
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Temper Temper, Mickey Mouse.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2012/0...id-you-expect/
Doujin fans are quaking at the wrath of Disney, which has just shut down a free doujin game for daring to include a likeness of Mickey Mouse, demanding ¥6,000,000 in compensation for good measure. “Hanako” features a parody retro RPG-style segment in which Mickey Mouse makes an appearance as a monster. Disney evidently did not see the funny side of this, and demanded they cease development of the title and pay ¥6,000,000 in damages. The developers, “AmoRico,” promptly complied: Thank you very much for playing Visual Novel “Hanako” Due to a major and intricate reasons, we were unavoidably close our site and stop the development of our game. From today, year 2012 January 26, We’re closing “Hanako Official Site” for indefinite period. We appreciate the players whom supported us. Thank you very much. Now if only Miyazaki had the lawyers to run Disney into the ground for their xerox of Laputa: Castle In The Sky in the form of the hideous Atlantis.
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2012-01-30, 21:40 | Link #3 | |
Megane girl fan
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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Endless "Adlertag" Soul
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2012-01-30, 22:23 | Link #4 |
Paper-Fan of DOOM!!
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Why would they? They gleefully and happily made plenty of Anti-Japanese Propaganda Cartoons back in World War 2. If aything the ruin and destitution of these Japanese youth would have Walty splashing around with joy in his liquid nitrogen tank.
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2012-01-30, 22:25 | Link #5 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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War usually keeps copyright battles from being worthwhile. Also that might have been considered parody. Also I think there were American bombers that probably used Mickey as well. I know some used Bugs Bunny.
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2012-01-30, 22:35 | Link #6 | |
Licensed Hunter-a-holic
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35
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http://kotaku.com/5880401/how-a-mick...led-a-fan-game
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2012-01-30, 22:42 | Link #8 |
'Sup Ballers
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: North Carolina, USA
Age: 34
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Sankaku Complex. That is all.
But I will say that I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been true. I recall the old story about Disney suing a local daycare in Florida because they had paintings of Disney characters up on their walls. |
2012-01-31, 09:09 | Link #16 | |
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We're sadly not dealing with reasonable people here, who could be trusted to take only reasonable actions to protect their financial investments. No, we're talking about people who treat copyrights/trademarks as nothing less than the highest legal/moral imperative, more important than anything else, and that's way out of line with how the vast majority of society sees it.
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2012-01-31, 12:42 | Link #19 |
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 35
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Yeah, someone else stole a creation of Walt's ( i think it was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) which pushed him to make his own studio so he'd have control over his own intellectual property.
It's also worth remembering that if Disney doesn't enforce it's trademarks (which could include things like Mickey's likeness), they lose control of the mark, which is why they might sometimes go after people in a callous way. They have to ensure the mark isn't genericized. Look at what happened to Hoover, Aspirin and Thermos. |
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