(2003-11-21) Old Mickey Mouse Parody

Article about Dan O Neill, the AirPirates and the Mouse Liberation Front satirizing Dis Ney's Mickey Mouse. In 1975, Disney won nearly $200,000 in damages and a restraining order against O'Neill, who was mocking Disney by continuing to draw Mickey Mouse every chance he got. Four years later, when O'Neill was fined and jailed for violating the injunction, the Mouse Liberation Front was formed.

It's worth remembering in general that behind any law is the potential to put someone in jail for breaking it (LeeWay, Laws Make Criminals). Just ask Tim Leary and Wilhelm Reich. Intellectual Property law has teeth.