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Originally Posted by Starrr
In my experience Disney is a dynasty that few others come close to where trademark enforcement comes in.
On three separate occasions over the years, I have seen at shows actual representatives of Disney, (they have a special name that I can't recall), come in and close a person down and make them stop selling items with a Disney trademark. The most memorable was an air brush artist, quite famous in my area who was not a new vendor, get served with papers because he was airbrushing Disney characters on clothing and forced to stop.
At the time I remember everyone thinking how bizarre it was that Disney actually had "people" who followed up on these things a fairly unknown craft show. Even now thinking back on it I still find it bizarre, but I guess if you want to run a ship as tight as Disney you need to nip infractions before they get out of hand.
I didn't mean to derail the thread but all this info on copyright and trademark protection facsinates me and reminded me of these incidents.
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I have also seen the fear of Disney at tiny, little unknown craft shows. I've seen the craft show promoters go around and give warnings that "Disney might come in".
There was a little day care that had a mouse in red pants and a duck in blue sailor outfit along with a few other familiar animals in clothing, painted on the outside of their building. Disney went after them, but they fought back and still have the characters on their building. The mouse is not exactly Mickey...completely different face and body. I can't say how they managed to keep the images, but they did.