Apple/Disney Copyright Conundrum

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  • Mike Brown - 10 years ago

    If the company had gone to lengths to advertise it and only make it only viable for transformative uses by the buyers, and if the company is in the 9th Circuit, then the Google Books ruling would surely apply. But I don't see how it could be considered fair use when it's just a general-purpose sticker that they've explicitly said can be affixed anywhere. Their use of the image in their advertising material on Amazon, though, does include the Apple logo, so I'd say that's fair use.

  • John Erickson - 10 years ago

    Clearly this particular manifestation of the "Snow White" MacBook sticker meme is infringement; as Bill says, the creators of this sticker in no way transformed the image from the movie. Other manifestations make the effort to transform her in some way, including using single colors (black or white), adding a mask, adding glasses, and even going "zombie!"

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