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Article: Disney: don't mess with the mouse. (Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney Co.) (NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL NEWS SERVICE)
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- August 1, 1989
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/NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL NEWS SERVICE/
DISNEY: DON'T MESS WITH THE MOUSE
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The storylines makes the most universally beloved icon of the 20th century sound like a rapacious rat, the National Law Journal reported in its July 31 issue.
A Soviet refugee invites the chairman of The Walt Disney Co. to see his painting of Mickey Mouse handing a Campbell's soup can to a Russian. Disney lawyers apply enough pressure to get the painting taken off display, and plans to make prints of it dropped. Five- and 6-year-olds at three day-care centers appear on television to say how sad they will be if they can't ...