AAshleySEG
DIS Veteran
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- Jan 16, 2012
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Hi guys,
I have seen so many fantastic designs and things for Door Decor and such featuring all the characters that I decided to make some of my own for our upcoming Alaska cruise on the Wonder. I don't have a good color printer at home so I decided to go to my local office supply store and have them printed out. The lady at the desk informed me that no one is "supposed" to print out anything containing copyrighted/trademarked characters etc. It is a violation, and you have to fill out a form saying that you have permission from the entities to use any of their characters/fonts/etc, even for "personal" use. So basically I am trying to figure out if it is illegal to make these things and put them on our doors?? I was trying to find out something on the Disney website or someone to ask. I am just so confused about the whole thing? If I want these things printed out should I fill out the form saying that I have permission to use them for personal use? Because on the Disney website it states that you cannot manipulate any of their images, and that is what we are doing after all, adding names, and/or moving things around, I am going to give some examples of the things that I made that they wouldn't print for reference. We were going to do a Toy Story themed door and so I got a bunch of toy story characters and put them on pages to cut out and laminate (she said they couldn't even laminate them if I printed them at home), I made 2 mickey ears, had porthole ears to print out, and a sign for our anniversary. She said NONE of it could be done. So if anyone has any thoughts please let me hear them, I am at a loss now of what to do...I don't want to break any laws by making door decor and showing our love of all things Disney on our cruise
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/AnniversaryMagnet.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/ToyJeremy.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/ToyStoryCharactersPage1.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/ToyAndrea.jpg
I have seen so many fantastic designs and things for Door Decor and such featuring all the characters that I decided to make some of my own for our upcoming Alaska cruise on the Wonder. I don't have a good color printer at home so I decided to go to my local office supply store and have them printed out. The lady at the desk informed me that no one is "supposed" to print out anything containing copyrighted/trademarked characters etc. It is a violation, and you have to fill out a form saying that you have permission from the entities to use any of their characters/fonts/etc, even for "personal" use. So basically I am trying to figure out if it is illegal to make these things and put them on our doors?? I was trying to find out something on the Disney website or someone to ask. I am just so confused about the whole thing? If I want these things printed out should I fill out the form saying that I have permission to use them for personal use? Because on the Disney website it states that you cannot manipulate any of their images, and that is what we are doing after all, adding names, and/or moving things around, I am going to give some examples of the things that I made that they wouldn't print for reference. We were going to do a Toy Story themed door and so I got a bunch of toy story characters and put them on pages to cut out and laminate (she said they couldn't even laminate them if I printed them at home), I made 2 mickey ears, had porthole ears to print out, and a sign for our anniversary. She said NONE of it could be done. So if anyone has any thoughts please let me hear them, I am at a loss now of what to do...I don't want to break any laws by making door decor and showing our love of all things Disney on our cruise

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/AnniversaryMagnet.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/ToyJeremy.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/ToyStoryCharactersPage1.jpg
http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k584/AAshleySEG/ToyAndrea.jpg