Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:26:03 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Excerpt:
"Escape from Tomorrow" is in many ways your typical low-budget indie
film. It's shot in black and white, the actors aren't famous, and the
plot is surreal. There is one thing, though, that makes "Escape"
completely different. The entire film was surreptitiously shot inside of =

Disney World. With what can only be described as generous bravado, the
director, Randy Moore, bought season tickets and secretly filmed his
actors at the theme park. Disney World is a major part of the plot: it's =

on the "It's a Small World" ride that the lead begins to lose his
sanity; later, he is tasered and held inside Spaceship Earth, the
golf-ball-esque Epcot Center
icon.

New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other news organizations have
speculated that "Escape from Tomorrow" must violate Disney's rights and
that its lawyers will seek to have the film enjoined. At the Sundance
Film Festival, where the film premi=C3=A8red this week, Moore was onstage=

answering questions when someone in the audience asked, roughly, "Why
did you put so much work into a film that violates so many laws?"

But the underlying assumption of that question - that Disney has a good
trademark or copyright case - is wrong. Though the filmmakers may have
committed trespass when they broke Disney World's rules and if it
violated the terms of entry on their tickets, the film itself is a
different matter. As commentary on the social ideals of Disney World, it =

seems to clearly fall within a well-recognized category of fair use, and =

therefore probably will not be stopped by a court using copyright or
trademark laws.
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<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/01/escape-from-tomorr=
ow-disney-world-and-the-law-of-fair-use.html>

         mark
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