Disney have stolen my artwork

Re:Disney have stolen my artwork by jrajav on Monday April 08, 2013 @03:58PM (#5514118)

I don't pretend to know anything about the relevant IP laws, but from a lay perspective I think there's a big difference between taking one piece of art and making a new derivative piece of art from it, and taking the same piece of art and making salable merchandise.

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Re:Disney have stolen my artwork by leephillips on Monday April 08, 2013 @04:03PM (#5514156)

That might be true, but in both my examples, the copy-and-paste artists were making salable merchandise from the works that they appropriated.

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Re:Disney have stolen my artwork by cromulent on Monday April 08, 2013 @11:56PM (#5516364)

Andy Baio didn't make that image [0], and it's not a copy-and-paste - look at the tie for example [1].

[0] http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

[1] http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/kind_of_bloop_compariso...

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Re:Disney have stolen my artwork by leephillips on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @08:52AM (#5517699)

I know that Baio commissioned the art, and didn't personally create it. The decision to just take it rather than negotiate for rights was his. It should be pretty clear from the context of this discussion that I don't mean literally "copy-and-paste". The Disney ripoffs are also not identical to the source - does that mean that there is no issue?

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