Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 23/1/02 11:20 AM, "Leica Users digest" Bill wrote: > "People have never been more poor and still we keep hearing about how the > economy, this abstract entity, is doing better than ever, and while the rich > are building summer houses they are also building ghettos for the rest of > us." > - --Anonymous > > What an ignorant thing to say, if I said something like that I'd want to > remain anonymous too. Well, consider yourself lucky to be one of the enlightened Bill. Go get 'em, Gary "While Disney sought only to foster "an image of innocent delightfulness," defendants supposedly sought to convey an allegorical message of significance. Put politely by one commentator, the "Air Pirates" was "an "underground' comic book which had placed several well-known Disney cartoon characters in incongruous settings where they engaged in activities clearly antithetical to the accepted Mickey Mouse world of scrubbed faces, bright smiles and happy endings." It centered around "a rather bawdy depiction of the Disney characters as active members of a free thinking, promiscuous, drug ingesting counterculture." Note, Parody, Copyrights and the First Amendment, 10 U.S.F.L.Rev. 564, 571, 582 (1976). " WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS v. THE AIR PIRATES (9th Cir., 1978) (581 F.2d 751) OO [_]<| /|\ Gary Elshaw Film and Media Studies Tutor Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html