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These animated characters are trademarked, not "copyrighted." The Disney version of these stories are copyrighted, as are most books.

You are completely allowed to reinterpret the generally available fairy tales that Disney has made millions from. You are not allowed to use Disney's trademarked characters to tell your story.

It's kind of like what would happen were you (or someone) to steal the formula for Coca-Cola. You can make a batch of soft drink, but you cannot use the Coca-Cola's trademarked bottle, nor their trademarked script to sell your soft drink. And, because you cannot do that, you could never hope to really challenge that company in the marketplace (and I'll bet people would claim that your soft drink tastes different than Coke).

Were you to publish an account of your war with Disney (to use an example) and then to die, your inheritors (and/or estate) would have a right to continue to publish your account and make a profit off of it. A great example of this is Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters which are, today, published daily as Peanuts Classics in newspapers, even though "Sparky" Schulz (Stanley Applebaum) passed away, the last original Peanuts strip published on 3 January, 2000. Schulz, in his will, demanded that there be no new strip creation after his death. His family and his estate both make a lot of money from this popular comic. His characters are trademarked. His strip is copyrighted.

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since you put it that way, it could just be Pigpen

A true advance in science

I've always wanted to know what Snoopy's voice sounded like....you never hear him talk in the cartoons. Now thanks to this revolutionary skeletal analysis technique, hearing his voice is within our reach.

And after that, I'd like them to map out Morn from Deep Space Nine. He never spoke either.

Great mysteries are about to be solved.

However, when this work is complete, these guys can devote their spare cycles to folding protiens..another worthy cause.

ROTFL, you're right.

Reminds me of: Lucy

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PS: lameness filter sucks.

OK, the sites I visit every day are:

Slashdot - my home page, visited several times per day.

The Register - also several times per day.

Amiga news sites, each visited once per day:
Amiga.org
AmigArt
Czech Amiga News

Online comics, each visited once per day:
Dilbert
Peanuts

That's all folks!

"VNC is the one thing that makes me feel safe when I leave my computer because I know it's a broadband connection away."

Perhaps you're worshipping the wrong Linus here...

bill waterson (sp?) wrote calvin and hobbes. He had had enough, and decided to retire. Dude did that strip for a long-ass time.

Nah, Waterson was a piker. C&H only ran a bit over ten years. This dude did his strip for "a long-ass time!"

I just caught myself pronouncing Linus as "Lee-nus" like Linus Torvalds. It's not exactly wrong; the official site doesn't give pronunciations.