Hobby Use

Gary Leach bangfish at cableone.net
Mon Jan 23 17:44:04 CET 2012


One can take it as a given that any and all properties trademarked and/or copyrighted by Disney are off limits to all unauthorized use, whether such use is intended for profit or not. Even Fair Use is something granted only the very narrowest latitude, and I very much doubt a "hobby" project such as described below would fall within that latitude.

Disney is hardly the only entity, corporate or personal, to take that position on intellectual property, but they, along with Apple, seem to be the standard bearers for "When In Doubt, Use Your Legal Clout". It's pretty much the way of the business world in these times.

Gary

On Jan 23, 2012, at 4:13 AM, dcml-request at nafsk.se wrote:

> Does a hobbyist (artist/story teller) have any rights to create something
> that is not for sale but just to share?
> 
> For example, someone writes a nice 10 page Scrooge Story.
> They then send the story to an artist who draws something up.
> Using a cheap copy method they then create 50-100 comics and send
> them out to others who wish to have one and those others just pay
> for the shipping costs (say 5 bucks) to get it to them.
> 
> Would something like that run afowl of Disney?
> 
> 
> I am just thinking out loud.

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