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Originally Posted by leebase
Every Tom Dick and Harry could be making and selling Mickey Mouse. Universal Studios could compete with Disney using Disney's own characters.
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Could, but would they? Most of these doomsday scenarios were both possible and legal in much of the world until fairly recently. Heck, there very little actual intellectual property protection is much of the world even now. You don't think you can buy fake mouse ears elsewhere in the world?