Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Copyright or Mousetrap?

Who would have suspected 60 or 70 years ago that Mickey Mouse would be a key figure in legal battles over copyright?

In the 1970s, a group of underground comic artists tried to use Mickey's image to make some points about society. A book about that struggle looks pretty interesting. A review of it is in the Village Voice. See: Mouse Trap by R.C. Baker