LOL Disney Marvel toon...

[n2doc]

[glowing]

1. I think Disney owns wayyy too much... Will the characters now find God too?

Torture a lot and wrap it in a Patriotic Flag?

[zonkers]

2. Disney product is oversexed and violent.

[YOY]

5. "Oversexed and violent"???

According to what 80 year old church lady?

[BuelahWitch]

6. What traditional Disney characters or movies "find God"?

They might be family oriented but there isn't a religious theme in any of them that I can think of.

[JHB]

3. The real danger from this is copyright abuse: extending copyrights far too long...

...to fulfill the purpose it was created for, all to preserve the proprietery status of certain iconic characters.

The intent of copyright is to give a creator proprietary control over their work for a set amount of time so that they can derive the benefits of their effort. After that time it becomes public domain so that everyone can use it without a hereditary "tax" on it by the creator (or decendants therof).

But over time, especially the last few decades, that set amount of time has been repeatedly extended, thanks in large part to lobbying by companies like Disney and Warner (who owns DC comics, plus their own things) so that Mickey, Bugs, Superman, etc. don't slip out of their control and into the public domain.

Where this extension turns around and bites the culture in the ass is with things like old music labels and old movies. The rights holders sit on them because there's not enough of a market to sell these things conventionally (at least not for "enough" profit), while at the same time these things drop out of the culture BECAUSE they've disappeared and not enough people remember that they even exist.

[RandomThoughts]

4. Also if a show does not have the right 'message'

It is not replayed or shown again. Or the rights are bought, a new reenvisioning is made taking out any offensive social criticism, and the original is shelved to never give a message that the owners of mega business groups do not like in order to keep certain thoughts from having time to grow in a persons mind.

Many original versions of even TV movies or TV shows when they are edited for time, are also edited for content that is not the message certain groups like.

It is the attempt to maintain one message to the populous.