Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
Three people pretending to be Uncle Walt himself. The shame! The shame!
If you find any more blatant Twitter violations of Disney’s basic corporate rights, be sure to e-mail us the evidence!
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
Rounding out the Hundred Acre Woods, Twitter also has:
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
10 Hannah Montanas, just one Miley Stewart (as it should be), and 287 Miley Cyruses (Cyri?). I’m starting to think that Disney’s legal department needs to open a whole new department just to police Twitter for trademark thieves.
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.)
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
10 Captain Jacks and — disturbingly — at least two of these are apparently dogs!
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
There are 28 Jessica Rabbits, too. It’s going to take Disney’s legal team months of working overtime to track down and neutralize all of these miscreants!
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
There are also two Twitterers claiming to be Emperor Zurg.
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
Is misusing a Disney character’s name on Twitter a copyright violation or a trademark violation? What about people who use images of a Disney character as their avatar — copyright or trademark? Considering the lack of morals being displayed, does it really matter?
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
Just as many fake Donalds as there are fake Mickeys. That makes a certain kind of sense, but it doesn’t change the fact that the duck has been the sad victim of identity theft!
Found in a search for names on Twitter, April 2009
How can there be only 19 Minnies when there are 34 Mickeys? This is further proof that there are copyright violations going on here!