XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:33:38 -0700, Anim8rFSK    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   That would be stealing from whoever originally created the character.   
      
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