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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 9258421" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>Oh no, it runs afoul because it says 2 things: Mickey Mouse & Steamboat Willie, both of which are Disney trademarks. You can make a character called Wolverine, feature him in your comics etc. but nowhere can you put the name "Wolverine" as trade dress or to sell the character. Even the public domain version of Daredevil from Lev Gleason can't be sold in a comic called Daredevil because Marvel owns the trademark "Daredevil" for pretty much everything. You see him in miniseries dedicated to him as Reddevil, Death Defying Devil, even just "The Devil" while the interiors will refer to him as Daredevil. Even though the character was a popular WWII era character and looks nothing like the Marvel version, it has zero impact on a lawsuit. So you can totally now make a cartoon or comic or even RPG supplement that features the exact design from Steamboat Willie and call him Mickey Mouse in your product but can't use it as a the title of the book in any way. You can't make toys and put "mickey mouse" or "Steamboat Willie" on the labels. You could call it "The Original Mouse" though. A european company, Ablaze Publishing, had to publish their Conan adaptations as "The Cimmerian" because they couldn't put Conan on the cover to say "this is a Conan comic book". Inside he was Conan, even the story was the same as the Howard story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teitan, post: 9258421, member: 3457"] Oh no, it runs afoul because it says 2 things: Mickey Mouse & Steamboat Willie, both of which are Disney trademarks. You can make a character called Wolverine, feature him in your comics etc. but nowhere can you put the name "Wolverine" as trade dress or to sell the character. Even the public domain version of Daredevil from Lev Gleason can't be sold in a comic called Daredevil because Marvel owns the trademark "Daredevil" for pretty much everything. You see him in miniseries dedicated to him as Reddevil, Death Defying Devil, even just "The Devil" while the interiors will refer to him as Daredevil. Even though the character was a popular WWII era character and looks nothing like the Marvel version, it has zero impact on a lawsuit. So you can totally now make a cartoon or comic or even RPG supplement that features the exact design from Steamboat Willie and call him Mickey Mouse in your product but can't use it as a the title of the book in any way. You can't make toys and put "mickey mouse" or "Steamboat Willie" on the labels. You could call it "The Original Mouse" though. A european company, Ablaze Publishing, had to publish their Conan adaptations as "The Cimmerian" because they couldn't put Conan on the cover to say "this is a Conan comic book". Inside he was Conan, even the story was the same as the Howard story. [/QUOTE]
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