cancilla said:
Are these videos legal? I tend to doubt it, but I also think that Disney might create more ill will by trying to stop them than they would gain by shutting down the business. Until Disney starts selling ride videos of its own, that is.
Just my two cents.
--Dominick
I see your point but, I can attest that if Disney found it to be illegal, action would be taken. It's not such a big industry that it would cause any sort of negative image. Disney is one of the most protective companies in the world against it's name and images.
They are NOT relaxed on ANY possible illegal activities. They monitor the Disney inspired LIve365.com stations for simple things such as name of the station. I had the name "Mickey Mouse Radio" on my station and was contacted by Disney's Legal Department and politely asked to remove the name "Mickey" to avoid copyright violation of the name "Mickey Mouse". They were very polite but made the point.
Point being, there's much less of a "problem" there than filming and selling some show, because it's obvious that any station on Live365.com is not sponsored by Disney and yet, they still manage that closely and enforce the copyright laws.
With that said...........Im nearly certain if they felt that these videos were of illegal nature, they'd have them removed.
Technically (I would think) if it was a copyright violation, it wouldn't be so much in selling the video as making a copy of it, which thousands of are on the net right now of rides and fireworks.
Also note that there is another site on the net right now (very lage Disney site) of which I wont name as I dont want to promote them since I really cannot stand the site's adminstrator, who sells subscriptions to be able to download Disney video content. As far as I would see it (though I dont matter), that is selling Disney video.
Im not saying IM right but I honestly dont think Disney considers it illegal or it would have been stopped by now.
