If for example, someone wanted me to paint Mickey Mouse on their kids bedroom wall, is it legal to be paid for that??? I am not "selling" the characters image to the public. I know you can if it is for personal use with no intention to sell it, wouldn't I be selling my painting skills since it isn't to the "public"?
2007-07-07 16:20:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
That company really likes to protect their images even if they are based on their stuff. There was a guy that ran a non profit home haunt that he used to collect money for charity. (Sorry can't remember his name right now.) Anyway, he made his own versions of the talking statues in the Haunted Mansion. His local Disney store asked to borrow them to help promote the store and he got sued by Disney.
There's a towing company over in Sumpter, South Carolina that just went through a ton of crap because they had an old tow truck out back they made look like "Mater" to use in parades and stuff.
Chances are they will never find out because like you said, it's not out in public. But use something in public that resembles anything they own and you'll be in a world of crap if they find out.
I don't think you'll have any problems with what you're doing. I agree that it's skills that are being purchased not the image. And if they want Mickey Mouse painted on a wall I'm willing to bet they have plenty of Mickey stuff in the kids room to more than make Disney's accountants happy so I wouldn't worry about it.
Have fun and good luck
2007-07-08 01:20:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Disney Wall Paint
2016-11-12 05:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your question I can see you know the subject and you are right.
Yes you are infringing copyright law....technically. Did you ever notice how schools have window paintings of all kinds of famous characters? They technically all are liable..... but noting ever happens. (That paint over story is a big fat urban legend and not true)
Your work has moved to a 'market segment' that does not have their attention, at all. You are free to paint on any wall you want as long as it isn't for a commercial goal like for advertisement purposes. (And no, you getting payed isn't a commercial goal)
2007-07-07 21:57:27 · answer #3 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It probably is infringement in some way if you are being paid for it, but I wouldn't worry because it is not likely that Disney is going to find out about it. They did, however, once sue a daycare facility over a mural containing Disney characters because the daycare was a commercial enterprise and in theory using the characters for profit.
2007-07-07 16:28:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disney is the most deligent with there copy rights as any other company. If you have a Mural business I would definitely stay away from Disney all together. I myself would not risk my reputation painting any of their material for money. I would say stick to themes and away from the charactors themselves. I would say I have seen several Muralist sites where they advertised that they did Disney along with other copyrighted materials but I would say stay clear. Disney has tons of Lawyers out there I am sure looking for sites like that to sew. I would say it is much different if you painted something yourself on your own kids wall or even that of a relative but not for money. Once money is in the equation you are making money from a Disney design and you could be made liable for that. I heard a story a way back where a lady did her kids room in Disney charactors and had a person from the company over. She was really proud of her work and showed it to him. She was later told to paint over it. Always remember it could come back on you someday. I would definately stay clear of that. Evita
2007-07-07 17:45:20 · answer #5 · answered by evitabug 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only if you're putting it in the "fan fiction" category ... otherwise you're SOL. Report me if you want to but I have no respect for people like you. You think you're smart enough to write a book but you're not smart enough to know anything about copyright issues. First, when it comes to Star Wars George Lucas owns every single copyright there could possibly be on the story, names ... EVERYTHING !!! None of that other stuff matters ... if it has the name Star Wars on it and you find someone stupid enough to publish it, which you won't, it will take about 3 seconds for you to be reaching behind yourself feeling for your @ss because Lucas will have sued it right off your body. My God, this is a man who actually sued Ronald Reagan for giving his SDI plan the nick name of "Star Wars" ... what makes you think he would go "easy" on a nobody like you? Second, as has been stated ... NOBODY just walks in off the street with a SW story and gets it published ... NOBODY. You have to be an established author and even then it's really hard to break into the very select pool of authors that Lucas allows to write in his world. All that being said ... you're story actually sounds decent at a glance ... why mess with some kind of SW reference when you can have your story stand on its own? Stand on your own story and leave SW alone because you have zero chance of ever being a writer in the SW EU. MTFBWY EDIT: @ "bcnu" ... ummm ... yes Lucas does own the "idea" of Star Wars ... intergalactic battles, no but since SW all happens in the SAME GALAXY it's kind of irrelevant. EDIT 2: You really should go in a different direction with your writing. What you have described in detail here actually HAS already been told in the many Dark Horse Comic story arcs. They are Canon and tell basically the same kind of story you are describing. Hell, it sounds a lot like the Darth Bane Trilogy ... Not really trying to be a jerk but you are going down a road that has only one end ... a brick wall. This just is NOT going to happen for you and sorry but given some of your statements above and the tone and manner with which they are said ... you need to improve your writing skills vastly before ANYONE will give your writing more than a "It sucks" look. .
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2016-05-01 07:28:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do it occasionally for friends no one is going to track you down. If you try to make an ongoing business out of it, you're probably violating copyright.
2007-07-07 16:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by babyeightyone 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your painting is for private use and is perfectly leagal
2007-07-07 16:23:54 · answer #9 · answered by Tom 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, i can tell you that you wouldnt be breaking any COPYRIGHT laws.
2007-07-07 16:23:34 · answer #10 · answered by andrew5544 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋