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Disney Trades Person for Intellectual Property
Dotnaught writes "Walt Disney Company's ABC has traded sportscaster Al Michaels to General Electric Co.'s NBC for cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. NBC acquired the rights to the cartoon through its purchase of Universal Studios, which itself gained ownership of the animated rabbit through a contract that Walt Disney signed early in his career. Having to sign Oswald away supposedly prompted Disney to create Mickey Mouse, a character he'd own outright. The company that bears Disney's name fought tooth and nail to retain ownership of Mickey Mouse when the cartoon character's copyright was about to expire."
(AP) At the NYSE, soul trading closed down five and a quarter points Friday afternoon. The worth of an average human soul has plummeted recently to a value not seen since the great depression. Disney has been pioneering the movement of trading souls regularly for concepts, legal action or maybe just a few dollars more.
Michael Eisner wasn't competent enough to comment.
My work here is dung.
I'll trade you my little brother for the rights to that piece of code you've got there.
Sounds like a fair trade to me.
From the mysterious future: Al Michaels commits suicide; friends cite work-related depression.
'Every story, if continued long enough, ends in death.' --Ernest Hemingway
The rabbit will live in the iPod. Oswald will read his Powerbook, to gain Intel. His ferocity will grow into a dual core personality. Although we're not sure what comes NeXT, we're sure that there's no need for pesky sports announcers, after all. They just bitch and complain.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Now, I'll sit up and take notice if they'll replace a news anchor with Morbo, but I don't think that'll happen any time soon. (If you don't know Morbo, you're not with the in crowd on Slashdot.)
There must have not been enough lawyers back then.
Well, at least he wasn't lost in a poker game for a DBX Console.
\Read your act of God clause.
"I wish I could quit you..."
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
...the trade does leave NBC without a first-string cartoon character, but he went on to state, "We're hopeful we can pick one up in next year's draft."
Chris Mattern
Exec: Ok, all in favor of naming our newest character Bugs Bunny?
(all hands but one raise)
Exec: All in favor of Efrom the Retarded Rabbit?
Yes...but THEY don't want you to know who it is.
Practice Kind Randomness and Beautiful Acts of Nonsense.