Quiz time. Is Peter Pan public domain or not? That will be the question for the courts as Disney stands accused of copyright infringment and denying funds to the Barrie Childrens Hospital Charity. I think it’s a little two faced for Disney to fight so hard in congress to keep Mickey Mouse out of the… Read More »Peter Pan Copyright Case
I’ve been hearing rumors of a book about Walt and the Golden and Silver era’s of the Walt Disney Company that tells the story through interviews with what could be called ‘Walt’s People’. Now comes word that it is actually a series of books edited by Didier Ghez and that the first one will be… Read More »Walt’s People
Cartoon Brew posts about Disney’s latest marketing of the mouse… this time on the side of a Kleenex box. Hmmm, Paper towels, Kleenex, what comes next in this paper product progression?
Did Mickey Mouse give birth to Russia’s favorite cartoon Mouse (after Mickey, of course), Tom thinks so. Click on the link for photographic proof.
A new open source movie called: Willful Infringement: Mickey and Me is available online. In the footsteps of Michael Moore, this is the story of Jed Horovitz and his legal dispute with the Disney Corporation regarding copyright infringement, as told by Mr. Horovitz.
The Walt Disney Company inducted twelve new members into the equivilant of the Disney Hall of Fame, the Disney Legends.
Great new Jack Skellington, from Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, Antenna Topper from Walt Disney World (available at the LaughingPlace.com store). I’ve been collecting Disney Antenna toppers for a few years now. One of these days I’ll put of a gallery of them. In the meantime visit this amazing collection.
Lindsay Cave, whose photos of Disneyland Paris we’ve highlighted here before, has a new photo essay (part one and part two) on LaughingPlace.com. This time he artfully captures 69 of the 77 Mickey Statues created by celebrities for their favorite charities. The idea was to have 75 statues on display (the two extra were made… Read More »Mickey’s Papparazzi!