japanprobe.com — With its slogan ?Disneyland is too far,? Beijing?s Shijingshan Amusement Park features a replica of Cinderella?s Castle, with staff dressed like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney characters. None of this is authorized by Disney - but that has not stopped the state-owned park from creating its own counterfeit version.
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cyguyMay 4, 2007
Other than SHREK, I'm not sure there is any copyright infringement/theft/piracy going on here.Just because the US now essentially grants copyrights for eternity doesn't mean every country in the world has to do the same. The other characters are primarily characters Disney took from the public domain (as noted above) with the exceptions being Donald Duck and Hello Kitty. Both of those are proprietary trademarked characters in their home countries that doesn't mean that anyone owns a valid copyright to their use in China. I don't know the law in China, and I don't know if Disney has tried to register their copyrights there - but to assume that Disney has a valid copyright there that extends back to characters created even before the PRC was even a country requires makes it look like it's the US public that has been the victim - I don't mean of DISNEY Corp.
Closed AccountMay 4, 2007
"You know, 2800KM away, you would think no one would get the two mixed up."Nobody in Canada knows what the f**k DISNEY IS???
Closed AccountMay 4, 2007
Korean girls > Japanese girls > Chinese girls
rocket777May 4, 2007
Let's not forget, Disney made his biggest movies using public domain characters. The Snow White story was not written by Disney. Nor was Cinderella. I think it's ironic that a business that made most of its money using public domain characters and stories would be the one to complain about others mimicking their copied stories.
infidelalMay 4, 2007
"it's kind of different when a huge corporation or when the government of the most populous nation in the world counterfeits something on an industrial scale then when a bunch of little people do it for their own personal use."How exactly? On the one side, a large number of people are outright stealing intellectual property rights. On the other...
infidelalMay 5, 2007
"because counterfeiting on a small non-commercial scale for personal use will never completely replace the legitimate commercial business."So it is acceptable to steal as long as you don't put the guy/company out of business then? Interesting perspective. On that note, I doubt that Disney will be going under due to China's knock offs.
thecoolestguyMay 6, 2007
It is acceptable to violate IP laws if you pay the penalty for it: which is that you have to do it under cover and without enjoying the protections and benefits of the law.Also, commercial enterprises only make money and are able to function thanks to laws like those protecting IP, so for them to blatantly violate and undermine these same laws that make their existence possible is the height of hypocrisy.
fallout911May 9, 2007
LMFAO!That is just fricking awesome.
rikkus256May 21, 2007
It always make me laugh when I hear a Chinese talking about how China is going to become the world's leader in economic and technology, and how the westerns will bow to them soon. I am not kidding, almost every Chinese I know believes that. P.S. when I say Chinese, I mean people from China only.
peterg7Aug 7, 2008
This has to be stopped. Disney people has to take some action about this. I would rather see the Disney stock holders getting richer from the law suit, then seeing the president getting money from something that he doesn't acknowledge stealing from.