DCML Digest, Vol 22, Issue 15

[Gary Leach]

> The idea about restoring comics on dvds sounds pretty good.

Disney sees the medium, not the content, as the determining factor in 
allowing a licensee to extend into another product area. Though a DVD's 
principle content may be comic book pages, to Disney that does not make 
it a comic book, nor even printed matter (the product area in which our 
license has the most scope). A case would have to be made that Gemstone 
would be the logical choice to put Disney comic book material onto 
DVDs, as of course it is, but this would need to address where it might 
possibly infringe on another licensee, or even a license Disney has yet 
to issue to anyone.

Gemstone's capacity to design, produce, distribute and market DVDs 
would also have to be addressed. But these issues had to be addressed 
for Gemstone to do the Disney comics - it's all a matter of determining 
what needs to be done and what - and who - it will take to do it.

That another US licensee would want to undertake projects like this 
seems unlikely, so I would imagine that if Gemstone expressed an 
interest, Disney would listen. With both parties motivated, the rest 
would be dealing with the details - and the devils that lurk within 
them.

Gary