(September 26, 2014 at 1:21 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: The only action Disney would have, would be on the basis of copyright infringement, not "desecration" of a venerated cartoon.
By your logic, if one day I come out of the gym, and a guy is dry humping the back of my Mazda, he has committed a crime. I will never look at the trunk of my Mazda the same way again.
The unspoken implication here seems to be, "But it's Jeeesus! And he's a special little snowflake of a statue!"
No he ain't.
And ain't nobody got no copyright on Jesus. Not even the Catholics, much as they might like to.
Yes there are laws against trademark infringement....but there are also laws against desecrating other peoples property. The point of the Micky example was to show that Free Speech doesn't always give you a free pass. If private property can be protected against trademark infringement why can't private property be protected against desecration?
The kid should get his own Jesus statue if he wants to simulate sex acts with a Jesus statue instead of desecrating someone else's.
