Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 OK, I admit it, this stuff really ticks me off. Disney has apparently muscled in (likely using one of its mid-level lawyers) and took someone's Twitter handle away because she used the word 'Disney' back before Disney was actually online media savvy (say 2008!) See, story below: <a href="http://thedisneyblog.com/2010/05/17/twitter-takes-disney-handle-away-from-user/" target="_blank">http://thedisneyblog.com/2010/...om-user/</a> I hate Twitter myself. I am so anti-social networking it's beyond belief. But I am having a hard time with the way the company enforces copyright and intellectual property and its relationships with social media. I've already spent many a post ripping the fact Disney allows its intellectual property to be stolen for profit by certain folks (some of whom sell their DVDs thru the LP store here), which weakens all intellectual property for any of us in creative media, when it suits their needs. Let the guy sell Horizons or MSEP DVDs to drooling fanbois so long as his sites give Disney plenty of positive PR about anything going on in the parks now. Construction walls, new merchandise and restroom rehabs are priceless and Disney gets it all for free. But let someone use a handle with 'Disney' in it on Twitter? Someone who never professes to be part of TWDC or representing it? Nope. Got to shut her down. She may bitch about the $hitty $9 burgers at Electric Umbrella ... or complain about how valet parking at resorts went from free to $12 like magic ... or maybe say nothing negative at all. But Disney can't take that risk, can it? Even if her name were say 'Disney', which it isn't. The simple fact is Disney isn't getting anything back from this woman. And they could get some negativity (I don't know her and have never read a single tweet of hers). But when Disney allows 'social media' thieves and whores to profit off its intellectual property, all's good provided there is a quid pro quo and rest assured, there is. Now ... when are we going to have LP.com's report on how great, fantastic and, dare I say, magical D23's weekend fanboi garden party with Danny Cockerell was? Did I miss the pics? I'm sure they're on the way. Like I said, the Weatherman is very hip to new media and is actively working to take over the fan community.... And it's working to some extent, but so long as some of us keep posting our unfiltered thoughts/observations/opinions on open forums such as this ... well, hopefully, Disney doesn't win the war.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> ...restroom rehabs are priceless... << Speaking of, what's the latest on the restrooms of the World? My bowels are clenched as I wait to hear about this most-important subject. *clenched*
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer They are on to me. EPCOT Explorer will be eradicated from Twitter.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^I think the supposed $750K rehabbed A-Land restrooms are nice enough, but not that exciting. And if you're going to redo the restrooms, at least have the decency to make sure you stock them with papertowels. They were out of almost ALL dispensers one day last week and it was early afternoon and not that busy. No excuse. And while we're on potty talk, what's the deal with barely any water pressure. You put directions up because you think the rubes (perhaps correctly) are too dumb to know how to wash their hands, yet you have auto sinks that release a trickle of cool water. HOT water is needed (does better with germs) and you certainly need enough to truly clean your hands. Again, it's not Disney being green. It's Disney thinking green as in cash. And since this isn't DCL, they don't care so much whether people spread illness. This has really pissed (potty talk, sorry) me off for years. Let's have some hot water (they actually have it in Anaheim and Paris) and more than just a trickle.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^True. But the rubes thought pixie dust soap was anthrax and so it went off into the history bin.
Originally Posted By figment1986 really, twitters TOS did leave it allowed to take names away for companies if the companies had a good reason, If this @Disney account was not being used for a long time, maybe twitter found a reason to give it to the mouse, Though twitter should give reason to the user and allow them to change their name instead of taking it lock stock and barrel from them. (I know universal came up with a unique one since the ones they wanted were taken)
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> ^^True. But the rubes thought pixie dust soap was anthrax and so it went off into the history bin. <<<< It DID disappear around that period of time....is that seriously the reason? I honestly would not be shocked.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Were there actual documented complaints? << I didn't want to wash my hands with anthrax, so I told Guest Relations. And they assured me it was magical anthrax that Tink expels from her little pixie body. I thought that was so cool, I didn't care anymore if I put anthrax on my hands. Spirit, they don't run hot water because the magical effect of washing your hands only works in cold water. If you use hot water in any of the WDW restrooms, your childlike soul will disintegrate into ashes and Stitch will run over and lick them up. (The way I make up rules, I could've written for 'Lost'.)
Originally Posted By jkayjs I miss the powdered soap as well & yes the anthrax thing is true. BTW Spirit my dear you should use 'warm'water to wash your hands with soap for at least 15 seconds before rinsing. With hot water you tend not to spend enough time actually 'washing/rubbing' your hands before rinsing. Can you tell someone just completed a competency for work. Yah we see over 65,000 patients a year in the ER & boy do we know how to wash our hands! BTW Spirit thx for the pep talk.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Disney doesn't have @Epcot either...>> Disney doesn't have many things ... including web domains that you'd think they would have snapped up. But Disney also doesn't have any legal right to simply take anything with the name in it. And taking this woman's Twitter identity is very weak when you're letting Jeff Lange and his ilk make a living by selling your intellectual property.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I didn't want to wash my hands with anthrax, so I told Guest Relations. And they assured me it was magical anthrax that Tink expels from her little pixie body. I thought that was so cool, I didn't care anymore if I put anthrax on my hands.>> Leo ... you can be scary ... and I mean that as a compliment. I honestly don't know how ignorant you had to be to think that the powdered soap was anthrax when just the amount in one of those soap dispensers would have wiped out huge numnbers of people immediately. Since folks weren't dropping dead everytime they had to make a magical Number 2, you'd think people would get that it was just soap. I'd love to know what boneheaded TDO exec made the call to change the soap. Anyone know? <<Spirit, they don't run hot water because the magical effect of washing your hands only works in cold water. If you use hot water in any of the WDW restrooms, your childlike soul will disintegrate into ashes and Stitch will run over and lick them up. (The way I make up rules, I could've written for 'Lost'.)>> Don't talk about Lost ... I'm getting very sad (but excited too) and it was nice to see someone I know on The View talking about it and then on Letterman tonight!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<BTW Spirit my dear you should use 'warm'water to wash your hands with soap for at least 15 seconds before rinsing. With hot water you tend not to spend enough time actually 'washing/rubbing' your hands before rinsing. Can you tell someone just completed a competency for work. Yah we see over 65,000 patients a year in the ER & boy do we know how to wash our hands!>> OK, warm water ... although I tend to use hot (almost to the point of discomfort) and scrub too! Use hand sanitizer more frequently too, but not obsessively. <<BTW Spirit thx for the pep talk. >> The Spirit is always with ya!
Originally Posted By MousDad I struggle with this issue too. Here's a list of possible reasons I've come up with that Disney does not pursue third party footage taken of theme park content: - Through advice of counsel, or through feeling out connections in judicial system, or through study of trends in similar case law, they've determined it is not a copyright infringement. - They think it might be a copyright infringement, but may be too grey an issue to guarantee success in court. - They think the positive PR/advertising outweighs the negative PR that would come with litigating your most loyal customer base. - They don't think that theme park content is true intellectual property on the same level that motion picture content, artwork content, and trademark content are. - It would cost too much to chart these legal seas with no reasonable expectation of return on investment. - They don't care.
Originally Posted By mousermerf - Anyone who would make that decision is oblivious to the existence of such items being sold. Disney's lawyers who work with intellectual property and copyrights work for the studios and networks - they do work for the parks/resorts/imagineering on a case by case basis as requested. They generally know less about the parks then the average tourist from Ohio.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Can't blame Disney execs for chianging the soap...but you can blame the idiots who seriously thought it was Anthrax. Jeeze.
