Not so. But not shockingly so. There are several comicbooks that were published before and during Disney's Mouseketeer 50's heyday using the mice as mouseketeer/3 Musketeer parody/sendup including one by Marvel Comics in the 60's and there are 2 Academy Award winning Tom&Jerry cartoons called "The Two Mouseketeers" that came out before Disney's mouseketeers in the late 40's. And it wouldn't even matter if they did. The use of the word "mouseketeer" in Chev's case and in all the others I mentioned is clearly a parody/sendup of Alexandre Dumas' "3 Musketeers" novel and in no way associated with Disney. But more to the point even if it was an out and out parody of Disney's "mouseketeers" it would be allowable by law as "parody". Denis Leary famously did a parody for tv of Peanuts using foul mouthed versions of Charlie Brown and the gang and the Schultz estate couldn't sue him because it was a parody. So we're safe. :) Dee - Chev writer dude
Very good! Point to consider since you may be publishing this as a real book at some point - the word 'Mouseketeer' may be a Dizney copyright. You've probably already thought of that - just throwing it out there.
TheDeeMan at 2:03PM, April 23, 2013
Not so. But not shockingly so. There are several comicbooks that were published before and during Disney's Mouseketeer 50's heyday using the mice as mouseketeer/3 Musketeer parody/sendup including one by Marvel Comics in the 60's and there are 2 Academy Award winning Tom&Jerry cartoons called "The Two Mouseketeers" that came out before Disney's mouseketeers in the late 40's. And it wouldn't even matter if they did. The use of the word "mouseketeer" in Chev's case and in all the others I mentioned is clearly a parody/sendup of Alexandre Dumas' "3 Musketeers" novel and in no way associated with Disney. But more to the point even if it was an out and out parody of Disney's "mouseketeers" it would be allowable by law as "parody". Denis Leary famously did a parody for tv of Peanuts using foul mouthed versions of Charlie Brown and the gang and the Schultz estate couldn't sue him because it was a parody. So we're safe. :) Dee - Chev writer dude
KimLuster at 5:22AM, April 23, 2013
Very good! Point to consider since you may be publishing this as a real book at some point - the word 'Mouseketeer' may be a Dizney copyright. You've probably already thought of that - just throwing it out there.