Yes Disney doesn’t make the laws I misspoke, I just meant that they have the laws on their side.
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> doesn’t Disney have some pretty aggressive copyright laws
Disney doesn’t have copyright laws, the government does.
> and equally aggressive lawyers to enforce those laws?
Yes, Disney is said to employ more lawyers than animators. Much of Disney’s revenue comes from it’s Intellectual Property (IP). Not only it’s movies and shows, but it’s rights to sell lunch boxes, posters, shirts, and anything else that has one of their characters on it.
It vigorously defends it’s rights to it’s characters and designs so that no one else can profit from them.
What Disney is notorious for is lobbying the government to change the laws to extend it’s copyrights. As a result of Disney corporations can now hold onto IP far longer than allowed in the past. Characters like Mickey Mouse should have become public domain decades ago.
This is a big part of the reason that Disney is cranking out so many re-imagined versions of their animated classics, each new version of a character or movie can be copyrighted separately from the original work which then extends Disney’s copyrights into the future.
>How does South Park get away with portraying Mickey Mouse as such a vile character with no repercussions?
Parody is protected under ‘fair use’ in US law.
Disney doesn’t have aggressive copyright laws, they just take advantage of copyright laws in various countries to extend the protection of their works.
Anyway, in the US, what South Park does is protected under fair use rights as a form of parody (using a copyrighted work as the basis to make fun of that copyrighted work).
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