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"[not specified]@lurker" said: The company that mines the public domain for story ideas while buying laws to prevent any of its ip from entering the public domain. >>>>>
My reply:
Yeah, and it was Disney [as rreported by a Urban rumor] in
part that stopped their own comic strip distributor, King
Feature Syndicate, from callin' Popeye's foe Blut, since it
sounded too much like Disney;s own Pluto. (However, the
main reason for the change from Bluto to Brutus wasn't
Disney but King Features Syndicate themsvles, when they
took over production of the POPEYES, having forgotten about
their OWN introduction of
Bluto via E.C.Segar, but Bluto had been only a comic strip
character ONST, as Popeye might say, before the 1930
cartoons, when in the early 40s, Bluto appeared as a comic
strip character while continuing as a cartoon animation
villain. Pramount distributed these and was allowed to keep
any CREATION, not ADOPTED PROPERTY, of theirs at the time,
yet King Features took back the cartoon animaiton rights in
1957 so they could do the animated TV toons. Paramount
animators (the "Harveytoons" folks on the other toons) were
contracted nonetheless, and even Jackson Beck as Bluto, Mae
Questal as Olive, and Jack Mercer as Popeye reprised their
own rspective roles, but appraently NO one rememebred THIS
little detail: Bluto WAS created by E.C.Segar, for KFS so
they COULD use his name, instead of what they did instead-
"Brutus", instead of "bluto" and resignging. In short,
Paramount and King Features forgot who owned a certain
brute,ergo the name change and the redesign. Fortunately
they rememebred but with Brutus being the name, "Bluto"
returned at the same time IN THE SAME CARTOON AS BLUTO.
Then in the 60s Disney made ashortlived stink over the
Pluto similiarity, but KFS also distributed their comic
strips.]
Note the Disney suing KFS over "Bluto" (the villian's name in Popeye) is a legend, not possibly true but the Paramount- King Features issue aint'!:)
And as the next poster said, there are those knockoffs, even of "original stories" like "The Lion King"!(Which itself was a much more "sophisticated"-actually, masturbatory and self-pleasing in my opinio-I have friends and family who otherwise feel-of BAMBI..the closing of DInsey's great 5 (SNOW WHITE,FANTASIA PINNOCHIO,DUMBO,and BAMBU with the RELUCTANT DRAGON semi-animated and also largely a flop).
Steve Carras
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