Quote Originally Posted by smokey the elder View Post
Disney is the biggest bunch of hard*** beestards about protecting their trademarks/copyrights (or at least they were in the Eisner era). BUT...anything that's a pop culture icon like that can easily be co-opted into the public sector, so I guess I can't blame them.

They put on a great show, though. But the Hank Williams Jr. thing does seem a bit hypocritical IMO.
There was a kindercare business that painted a mural on a wall and disney went all out to get them to cover them over...

http://www.snopes.com/disney/wdco/daycare.asp

That and there was a show on NPR where they spoke about Disney's use of interns to cut costs within the company.

At the millenium Disney spoke about putting all the old movies into 'retirement' and they sold DVDs that were the last chance for the public to own the original films.

Now it's blu-ray and 3-d special editions....