Thursday, May 3, 2007

Chinese Generic... Disneyland???

Yup, China has walked the line of copyright infringement and opened a state-owned park that I can only describe as "almost Disneyland." Let's take a look:

That castle is very close to Disneyland's. But it isn't...

Hey that almost looks like Donald and Minnie... nahhh...

So where are the copyright lawyers on this one? How close is too close? I think this is an excellent example of "The lines only exist in your mind, once the culture is publicly known, it's publicly owned, so get over it." The nearly-identical nature of the park is so absurd it's a wonderful critique of how modern copyright policy runs counter to nature.

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