XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
      
   In article <1256927582.300636@irys.nyx.net>,   
    Blanche  wrote:   
      
   > It's not restraint of trade or even capitalism. It's property rights.   
   > More specifically, intellectual property rights.   
   >   
   > (oh my gawd, we had this argument 15 years ago, right here   
   > on the trek newsgroups....does no one ever learn?)   
   >   
   > Disney owns the rights to Snow White, et al. Sumner Redstone (in his   
      
   Disney owns the rights to the elements THEY CREATED of Snow White.   
   Nothing's stopping anyone from doing a new version of Snow White based   
   on the original public domain material; in fact, they do it all the time.   
      
   > persona of Viacom,CBS,whatever) owns the properties in the catalog   
   > known as "Star Trek".   
   >   
   > Let's take a simpler, closer to home example. I own a car. Do you have   
   > the right to buy my car from me? Nope, not unless I am willing to sell.   
   > Now, you're more than welcome to go find a car similar to mine and buy   
   > it, but you're not buying my car.   
   >   
   > Not happy you can't buy a Disney cartoon? Well, go buy something   
   > similar, such as the Warner Bros cartoons.   
   >   
   > Not happy you can't watch TOS on tv? Sorry, go watch something similar   
   > instead.   
      
   Or make your own version of Snow White.  There's no benefit to society   
   to your stealing Disney's.   
      
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