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Most of the uproar stems from a conservative organization called the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which previously assailed Disney's Miramax division, among other studios, for films it deemed blasphemous. Whether it will succeed with the utterly independent Samuel Goldwyn Films is more problematic. So far, the league has generated a lot of news stories and a letter-writing campaign that has brought 5,000 letters to Goldwyn...
...gauntlet. Terrence Patterson ’00 was Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his protegé take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter there...
...recent U.S. law extended Mickey Mouse's copyright for 20 years, but residents of Malta, Austria, now say they've housed him in their church for centuries. Restoration work uncovered a 700-year-old fresco that tourism officials hope will make the town a Mickey Mecca - and perhaps threaten Disney's copyright. Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig notes that a long-standing legal hypothetical asks: "What if two people independently wrote the same play?" The answer, he says: "Both get a copyright. Seems fact is stranger than cartoon." THE BOURSE Give 'Em Credit HSBC has for years snapped up assets across...
...Shook Me All Night Long” (as featured in the end credits to the timeless masterpiece A Knight’s Tale) and “The Fox and the Hound,” featuring not the music from the Disney film, but Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” and Elvis’s “Hound...
...those places and work to keep them for your great-grandchildren.” Other themes of the book include faith-based sustainability initiatives—“What Would Jesus Drive?”—as well as chilling social-justice soundbites: “Disney exploits its Haitian workers who make Mickey Mouse T-shirts for 28 cents an hour...