Sometimes it is just too disturbing to read the news. I have eschewed the print media (Well, okay -- I admit it already! I read the horoscope that is posted at Starbucks when I go there. That's not like reading the newspaper. Okay, yes, I look at those tabloids in the supermarket check-out line; but what am I supposed to do? See, these things are forced upon me. It's not like I want to read these printed materials.)
Maybe some of it has to do with the fact that I got trashed by several newspapers for doing my job; but then the papers failed to report that the prosecutor didn't do her job and the appeal was dismissed. Whatever.
I was quite distressed because scientists are claiming that there is nothing they can do to combat a cancer-causing virus that is infecting the Tasmanian devil. The world's population of Tasmanian devils is being decimated by cancer.
Warner Brothers has made a lot of money off the Tasmanian devil without paying any kind of royalties or use fees. You can be sure that if I was charging you for T-shirts I was making with the unlicensed image of the Tasmanian devil, Warner Brothers would be slapping restraining orders on me and wanting millions of dollars. Don't let them know your neighbor has a tattoo of the Tasmanian devil on his calf -- WB will sue to have his leg cut off.
Yet, Warner Brothers paid nothing for use of the image and personality of the Tasmanian devil, which counts only the island of Tasmania as its home. It is now time for Warner Brothers to do the right thing. It is time for Warner Brothers to ante some of the millions of dollars of profits it has enjoyed at the expense and loss of this doomed critter.
Please write to Sander Schwartz, President, Warner Bros. Animation, and Barry Meyer, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. c/o AOL Time Warner Inc. at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019, or call at (212) 484-8000 to voice your support for the survival of the Tasmanian devil!
i hope people don't think you are serious!
Posted by: stacey at August 3, 2003 08:27 PMi just got your title! duh! cool!
Posted by: stacey at August 4, 2003 11:45 AM