Disney plans to sue anyone who Digitally Replaces 'Little Mermaid' With Mayo Actress 
From the moment Disney announced that Halle Bailey would star in a live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, racists have bitterly complained that a Black girl might play a fictional magic fish person on film. Because of course they have.
There are good reasons to be mad at this film, another in a series of unnecessary and by definition unoriginal remakes, about the virtues of a woman giving up her family and the very core of her being in order to land a man.
But casting isn’t one of them.
Alas, they wanna be where the white people are, and they’ve found an answer to their woes.
Multiple folks on Twitter immediately focused on the poster boiling down “woke” to just be a synonym for “Black,” a rare moment of pure honesty about what these folks really mean when they complain about it.
Sadly, my brain is permanently fried by years of legal practice so my takeaway was this:
You know, the lawyers who so zealously guard the company’s intellectual property they pretty much single-handedly broke the whole copyright regime to suit their own interests and who historically run to court against companies marketing altered versions of their films? Those folks.
You want thingamabobs? They’ve got 20! And in this sentence thingamabobs are causes of action for copyright and trademark infringement.
Even these live action remakes that no one asked for seem like a Hail Mary legal play to set up some backdoor claim that the substantially similar scripts used in the NEW movie — which gets a new copyright — might give them some limited leverage against future creators trying to work with the original story when it enters the public domain. It’s hard to shake the feeling that this is all part of a far-flung future brief that says, “We grant that Dumbo the 1941 film is public domain… but when the defendant’s work features this scene it is actually infringing our 2019 version of Dumbo.” This shouldn’t work and would make a mockery of the whole purpose behind keeping copyright protection limited, but… can’t fault them if they try.
Anyway, by all means try to sell a digitally altered version of a Disney movie and see what happens! They may just send Chip & Dale after overseas pirates, but trying to take the exact same movie, edit it for the benefit of the most insecure bigots on the planet, and then sell it back?
Disney will undoubtedly be watching the boards and waiting to bring the real legal firepower for that one.
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There's a great thread here: https://old.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/xcv8u1/black_kids_reacting_to_the_new_little_mermaid/
where they're gushing about a little black girl who is excited because the little mermaid is black.
Reminds me of a gif that /pol/ likes to post of a white girl disappointed with a black doll - she prefers the white doll. Of course ... OF FRICKING COURSE that would be considered racist. "Someone has taught this girl to be racist!" they'd say.
The irony is lost on them that they're doing exactly the same thing that pol is doing, but with a different race.
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Go back to Reddit
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the r in rdrama stands for reddit
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That's not what I was told.
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In hindsight, this sites name sucks.
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I thought it stood for rimjobs
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Y-yeah! Those dumb r-slurred libtards probably would think a white doll is racist!!
Those freaking liberals are such turkeys am I right? At least in the scenarios I invent in my mind they are!!!!!
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well, it's cultural appropriation. the chinese have a zero tolerance policy against cultural appropriation, that's why they oppose black ariel.
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/r/ShitLibSafari/
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😂
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It's natural to be attracted and to relate to black people, as humans were originally black, from Africa. Affection for white people is a learned cultural behaviour - there simply wasn't enough time that we could've evolved it naturally, evolution doesn't work that fast.
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The problem with this is none of it is organic. This is all Disney marketing. Your kinda racist uncle will be talking about how the little mermaid is supposed to be white not because he actually cares but because Disney spent a bunch of money generating the outrage in the first place because it won't make 2 yuan in China.
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It never gets old, lmao
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I mean it's made by ricecels then dumped online. This guy obviously didn't look into this too hard and thinks it's burgers doing it I guess. A lot harder to enforce copyright in the Middle Kingdom.
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Seriously. Like babbys first day on the internet
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They probably know, but his broken brain has to blame mayos no matter what.
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This writing "style" is one step away from grammar errors. It's so immature. Why would I believe vague opinions about legal action of a megacorp from this cute twink?
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Source? I didn't look into it too hard either, though I am enjoying the seethe greatly.
For what it's worth, I don't care about the new casting (it's a freaking fish-lady after all) but I enjoy the way the double standard of Hollywood blackwashing and their obsession with fetishizing blacks is being pointed out very effectively by showing how upset people get when you do the exact same thing but flip the races around. Honestly Ice Cube had the best idea about this stuff IMO, just make representation proportional to demographics, then anybody who complains is clearly a racist regardless of what side they're on.
What I really love here though is the drama of pol getting enraged by a black mermaid and then whitewashing her to enrage the wokies, and then getting sued by an enraged Disney, only to discover that copyright doesn't work in China. Now that is some top-shelf seethe. It's hard enough getting two groups to fight, but when you can get four different factions to mix it up, that is super tasty.
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US nukes China to ensure the mermaid stays a ni**er how 2022 closes.
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accelerate
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And that's a good thing
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I'd love to see a hood film where only the protagonist is black, but his parents and neighbours are all wiggers in a cast of 10 characters.
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Unironically can't wait for Ryan Gosling to be cast as Dr Martin Luthor King. It's called acting, chud!
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Brain damage post no one would sell the movie just make it available online via a torrent site.
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Global demographics? Target market demographics? Also, the ethnicities are often clustering. Should powerful people be casted as jews over blacks? What about prisons populations?
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It's what i saw on /tv/ the first thread and I take every on 4chan at face value becauce im an idiot.
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He probably contracted syphilis from cleaning up his mother's kitty with his mouth after 20 BIPOCs blew their load in there. Syphilis can damage the brain and impair thinking skills, you know.
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Wait
a second, where 
will 
they publish it tho? youtube? Not sure 
you thought that out too well.
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the
aren't going to care
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They already have a Mermaid. Stephen Chow is in it.
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They arent planning to sue people who replace her, they'll sue people who do it and try to distribute bootlegs... Which they would do even if they didnt alter it.
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Shh
you're interfering with the narrative
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It'll hit torrents a day from the first web rip
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Lol I just assumed they'd be distributing it via torrent, not try to sell it
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It would be interesting if someone were to seed torrents labeled as the original woke friendly version but actually altered unwoke version, that would be pretty devious but I'm not going to be the one to do it.
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Rules for thee but not me. Also he has a women's last name so L for him
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Any male who takes his b-words last name should be forced to transition. Not that they need more than a gentle push.
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What if they’re a Hemingway or Rockefeller?
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Kids take mom's last name, you keep yours. Preserve your family identity, let your children be born into a prestigious name.
Kind of like marrying into royalty, IIRC. Can't marry into the royal house after all.
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The Cotton Ceiling that the media won't tell you about
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Still hard to believe that term was coined unironically.
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Uh, I don't think anyone is planning on selling it..
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oh noes
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the year of the chud is canceled
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Not if I have anything to say about it
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God what a straggy writing style
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Walt would be spinning in his grave, except nothing spins at absolute zero.
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He was cremated, not frozen
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Gotta kneel for reportmaxxing in any form
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I hope someone takes them to court
and wins. This is obviously a transformative work, rather than a straight copy.
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Congratulations, Disney! You've guaranteed it's going to happen now.
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What if we make her way darker?
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She's white-passing if anything. Only congoloid actors should be allowed to star in major productions.
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Sell?
As far as I can tell this is just to spit in the face of the people who worked on the movie
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This would fall under fair use. Anyone willing to commit the time and energy to fighting such a lawsuit could probably make Disney pay up
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In the choice between
and 
I'll pick the chuds everytime
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I wish I could care
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Didn't they criminalize memes a few years back
Secured my spot as a top 100 most memorable rdrama poster
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Trans lives matter
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Why is whitewashing not okay, but blackwashing is?
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They hate whites and want to erase them from everything. They also want to flex on us to show how much social power they've been given.
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As of it’s not racist to cast a BIPOC specifically to talk about BIPOCs. I’m so sick of this shit.
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Snapshots:
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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It's only a problem if they're selling it and you know these turbo spergs will just upload it for free
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Nobody is going to sell that, r-slur they'd just post it for free.
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I don't think anyone who is hyped about the "Make Ariel White Again" potential for AI had any illusion about whether Disney would be cool with people making their own version of the movie and re-selling it. Like even without the race-bending shit they obviously want a cut of any time anyone sells their movie. They'd make it illegal to buy secondhand DVDs or whatever if they could, and they'd need to see a pretty insanely massive profit opportunity to even consider engaging in talks with MAGA Racists who want to legally distribute a White version of the movie.
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Hello
totally organic outrage that is 100% real and not the n+1'th attempt to harness the culture war to market a shitty product 
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People will just release the movie for free
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Should be replaced with black trans woman
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lol "land" a man
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I want to race swap Birth of a Nation.
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Holy shit, imagine...
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the secret here is this took so long to render
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stop watching anime.
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3d anime is still anime. stop watching anime.
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