Digest #16

[Torsten Wesley Adair]

On 11 May 1993, Don Rosa wrote:
> COMMENTS ON DIGEST # whateveritwas:
> And I imagine those Dan Jippes/Carl Barks JW remakes will be used by
> Gladstone. Why not? Every Disney comic book story ever done  anywhere on
> the planet is available to them for their use at the same price... free. 

You mean I could move to some second world country where Disney comics
aren't published, get a license from Disney, and print Disney Comics?

Seriously, what does a Disney license cost?  What's keeping some
entrepreneur from moving to some unknown country, and publishing Disney
material in such perfect form that these publications are sought after
like the Disney postage stamps?  
(I guess Another Rainbow is doing this already, huh?)

I assume that if creator X sets up his own Disney license, the only
renumeration he would get would be from the sale of his publications.

I wonder if there is any "gentleman's agreement" between creators that
creators will not use another person's creation without first asking. 
Sure, there is no legal argument here, as Disney owns the trademark and
copyright, but I still wonder.


Torsten Adair	torsten at cwis.unomaha.edu	Omaha, NE, USA