Despite what this Web site would have you believe, tales of Winnie the Pooh meeting up with the alien from Alien are completely epocriphal apoohcrafil false. Creating this hybrid “entertainment” is clearly a violation of copious copyrights, and we have no more time for it than we had for Beauty and the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Fantasia 2001, or Snow White and the 12 Angry Men.
One of our loyal readers passed along to us this logo being used by an online newspaper. I don’t know what bothers me more about this — the blatant use of Disney’s precious font in the word “daily” or the callous intermingling of Toy Story and Wizard of Oz copyright and trademarked imagery.
If we allow such things to go on, what next? Bug’s Life mixed with The Ten Commandments? The Incredibles and Gone with the Wind? Casablanca and Tron? The possibilities are just too horrible to imagine.
The Consumerist Web site has an article about requests for a prostitution Web site to be shut down, and they chose to illustrate it with this photo of what a Jungle Cruise skipper might call “the back side of Mary and Alice.”
That is not only wrong, it’s slanderous! And poor little Alice — she’s underage! Is the Consumerist’s photography being chosen by Roman Polanski these days? The shame!
Reader Heather writes:
The game, missbimbo.com (a dress up doll site) is having a pirate theme and a competition to find the best dressed pirate themed bimbo. On the ‘judging panel’ appers disney’s very own ‘Cpt Jack Sparrow’ – I’m sure disney would love the interpitation of the main man!
Heather, you are so right and Miss Bimbo is so wrong! Indeed, Captain Jack might very well want to judge a contest of this sort, but even a piratical scalawag such as he has taken a solemn vow to respect for the very trademarks and copyrights on which his existence is based!
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
Just one Condorman on Twitter, so there is an outside possibility that this is not a copyright violation, but a legitimate online identity. There’s no Woodrow Wilkins, so if he’s really online, he’s just using his secret identity. (There are also 34 Michael Crawfords, but I don’t think that proves anything.)
