Like I can understand why they’d have a trandmark for the character Loki as presented in the MCU, because they own marvel and marvel created that representation, but how can they be shutting down people from selling items depicting the actual norse god from norse mythology, not the disney depiction?
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There’s an old saying; The mouse has more lawyers than animators.
Disney understands that its intellectual property is the most valuable thing they have, and if you don’t vigorously defend it, that sets a precedent that allows artists and other companies to profit off that IP.
A lone artist is hardly a threat to Disney, but Disney is notorious for launching take downs of anything even remotely resembling their Intellectual property. They hire the so called ‘fun police’ people that do nothing all day but to search social media for such potential violations and flag them. The movie and music industries do the exact same thing.
With current DMCA laws sites like RedBubble and Youtube have no choice but to comply. It’s essentially corporate bullying.
Disney knows full well that the artists can’t afford to hire a lawyer, let alone go through the lengthy legal battle to win such a case. So it’s better for the artists to just let it happen.
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