So what do you think about Disney reply denying the use of spiderman in a gravestone?

[Nefastus]

I recently saw an article that it appears a father intended to put a gravestone with the image of spiderman for his deseased son (the boy was 4) but it got denied by Disney (from what I got the cemetery administration required permission from them). Didnt see anyone talking about it really.

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I thought they eventually allowed it.

[Machismo]

Disney, along with other companies are very strict in applying their patents and trademarks. They do this, because it allows them to protect them more easily. Does it make them look like dicks? Yep. Do they give a shit? Nope.

[zenkai]

I recently saw an article that it appears a father intended to put a gravestone with the image of spiderman for his deseased son (the boy was 4) but it got denied by Disney (from what I got the cemetery administration required permission from them). Didnt see anyone talking about it really.

That's an old story, and also I don't care that someone can't have spiderman on their gravestone.

[Jonnusthegreat]

Disney made the right call to not allow it to be used. Grieving father is doing what grieving people do best - think irrationally - and will get over it after the son is buried.

[s_bushido]

It has apparently been their policy to deny this sort of thing for decades. I'm sure people think that riling up the internet mob against the company will get them to budge...but good luck with that.

[Saucexorzski]

Never liked the Mouse because the Mouse has always been and always will be rude.

[Calfredd]

Disney made the right call to not allow it to be used. Grieving father is doing what grieving people do best - think irrationally - and will get over it after the son is buried.

Only to start grieving again because if I recall correctly, the boy's sister is also afflicted by the same genetic disease.

[Techno-Druid]

Disney made the right call to not allow it to be used. Grieving father is doing what grieving people do best - think irrationally - and will get over it after the son is buried.

How is putting Spiderman on a four year old's tombstone irrational?

[s_bushido]

How is putting Spiderman on a four year old's tombstone irrational?

The irrational part is getting this upset that they said "no."

[Jonnusthegreat]

Only to start grieving again because if I recall correctly, the boy's sister is also afflicted by the same genetic disease.

That sucks. If only Mickey could cure them.

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How is putting Spiderman on a four year old's tombstone irrational?

It's not, but thinking that your individual desires and whims should be satisfied by a multi-billion dollar corporation is a serious god complex.

[Themius]

That sucks. If only Mickey could cure them.

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It's not, but thinking that your individual desires and whims should be satisfied by a multi-billion dollar corporation is a serious god complex.

Seems more that the "god complex" lies with the company not the person who wants to honour a dead child with something they loved.

[Jonnusthegreat]

Seems more that the "god complex" lies with the company not the person who wants to honour a dead child with something they loved.

It's their intellectual property. It's not a god complex, it's a 'I can do what I want with my stuff and you can't tell me otherwise' which is literally what everyone does with their stuff.

[Themius]

The reasoning behind this is they don't want their character associated with death...nevermind the fact that characters die all the time in their franchises...

They also said it goes back to a policy Walt had... well how about we ask Walt's descendent what she thinks?

I mean trying to say "we can't do this because this dead guy who was quite racist and put out tons of very insensitive cartoons (we no longer agree with) out said we can't do it so..."

Who cares about what the dead guy thinks? Disney has already tried to distance themselves from the legacy.

[Unholyground]

Graves are pointless and hold nutrients from going back into the earth, responsible people cremate their loved ones.

[Elegiac]

Graves are pointless and hold nutrients from going back into the earth, responsible people cremate their loved ones.

Funny that. Cremation is actually quite ecologically unsound by virtue of its energy requirements and emissions.

There's a lot of responsible ways to decompose, cremation really isn't one of them.

[zEmini]

Disney proving once again they are cunts. We can feel Stan rolling in his grave (and Walt in his freezer) over this stupidity. Lets hope the bad PR keeps coming.

[Techno-Druid]

That sucks. If only Mickey could cure them.

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It's not, but thinking that your individual desires and whims should be satisfied by a multi-billion dollar corporation is a serious god complex.

Does that mean who people who protest the government have a god complex?

[Jonnusthegreat]

Does that mean who people who protest the government have a god complex?

If the government is preventing them from putting a US flag on a tombstone, and they generate a PR campaign against the heartless government because of this singular act, yes.

[Nefastus]

That sucks. If only Mickey could cure them.

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It's not, but thinking that your individual desires and whims should be satisfied by a multi-billion dollar corporation is a serious god complex.

The father isn't asking Disney to pay for it, just to put it in the gravestone of his boy that loved spiderman. How does this hurt the company in any way?