Originally Posted By mousermerf Hope everyone has their Horizons DVD already.. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-1964-Worlds-Fair/dp/B001EQUESC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1272168194&sr=8-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Dis...4&sr=8-1</a> Disney is suing.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Ack - wrong linky. Was looking at the Disney music collection on amazon, correct linky: <a href="http://www.magicmusic.net/topic/4007-eac-starts-theme-park-audio-downloading-service/page__st__140__p__32066&#entry32066" target="_blank">http://www.magicmusic.net/topi...try32066</a>
Originally Posted By Hista98 i don't get it he uses home video footage of the ride how can he be sued for that? its public access stuff.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Not always. He uses a lot of old company videos and sells audio tracks from the parks. Most of the stuff he sells probably would be of no interest to the average consumer, only die-hard Disney fans. Still, if he's distributing and selling copyrighted material without authorization, then that's the reason for the lawsuit.
Originally Posted By MPierce You can't hide from the Mouse, and make a buck off him. Eventually he will hunt you down, and take off the leashes on his Lawyers.
Originally Posted By Manfried If one sells images shot at the park, then it is a copyright violation. Same with selling something with the music in it. If you use it for yourself, then it is not a copyright violation.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> You can't hide from the Mouse, and make a buck off him. Eventually he will hunt you down, and take off the leashes on his Lawyers.<<< "I'm wishing on a star and hoping that I'll be a Disney Lawyer, one day, too! " * crescendo of moppets singing "Wishes" gets louder, and a comet soars over Cinderella Castle exploding, in glittering points of light* That was for Spirit, for him to read when he gets back. He despises both Wishes and my ambition to get into Law so that should leave him quite thrilled with me.
Originally Posted By danyoung Frankly, I'm surprised that it took this long. There is stuff on his dvds that blatantly violates copyright law. I've been happy to purchase a disc from time to time, but I'm not at all surprised that Disney is shutting him down.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer See, you have people like that that CHARGE for their vids, and then you have people and Historians like Martin Smith that do it all for free. He's a class act.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Could we somehow get Martin to post here? I miss him. And Lee, too.
Originally Posted By leobloom Why do they waste their time at the other place? It's like a middle school dance over there.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Why do they waste their time at the other place? It's like a middle school dance over there.>> I don't know. EE would know more than I.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Is this the guy that does all those DVDs they advertize here? If it is, I am surprised he lasted as long as he does!!! I couldn't believe he was selling DVDs of parades, attractions and shows. It's actually pretty blatant.
Originally Posted By SuperDry There's talk on the message board thread linked to in #2 that the guy received a Cease & Desist letter from Disney legal but that he chose to ignore it. If true, what did he think was going to happen?
Originally Posted By mousermerf According the suit, it's when he went to doing TV specials and such that Disney went after him. Extinct attractions they don't seem to mind - it's their TV specials they're not happy about.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Disney should take it as a sign to not close popular and old attractions. I'm just sayin'. *looks at Horizons, 20K, WoM, JII, Mr, Toad, WoL, IllumiNations* (Sad that most of those are EC attractions.)
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I'm okay with all of those closing as long as decent replacements are given. Most of them got that. Except for 20K and obviously WoL
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer You think of TT, M:S, JIYI, and Pooh as decent? They are ok, sure... but no where near their originals.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<Disney should take it as a sign to not close popular and old attractions>> That some people want to buy video footage and soundtracks doesn't mean they should have kept those attractions. What I do think though is that Disney is missing out on an untapped market by not producing their own extinct attractions DVD's.
