Devine, James wrote: > did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the > way he did with his animators? >
lawrence lessig, in a talk at princeton, suggested that the character (mickey mouse) was copied from an existing one (buster keaton's 'steamboat bill') for 'steamboat willie'. lessig thinks such reproduction is a good thing, of course. http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/000788.shtml --ravi
