word? wut benies?? and get ur ass over here now and stop chit chatin on GC

*cough*bullshit!*cough*

Disney don't need yo' damn money, honey.

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ETA: I just realized after reading the rest of this thread now that you weren't offering to pay, you're saying that you actually do pay? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. I hope Disney sues the pants off your ignorant asses.

LPG - ITY? :rolleyes:

Kappa Phi Chi???
 

I agree that having your own "Cartoon" mascot is pretty childish. I get it why Zeta would want Ariel to be an unofficial mascot...If it was up to me-my sorority would use a disney mascot unofficially because one of our sisters/ alum was the voice of a certain disney character in a certain movie, as well (no-not the little mermaid-I wish it was, though)....Even if Zeta, ASA or DG did do something similar to that-I would have to say that the fact they are NATIONAL and well known throughout the world would make it much more alright than some girls who threw some letters together, with a mascot from Disney and called it their own....

Another thing I find a bit irritating is the fact that the girl had the audacity to say they "pay" Disney....okay-I'd love to see that happen. That's pretty hard to believe considering I graduated from Penn State and even though I paid TONS of money to go there-bought lots of PSU merchandise and even worked on campus for a little-if I went to the local Greek shop-unless Panhellenic needed the shirts-no group or one person could have the Nittany Lion head printed on anything they wanted. In fact, in my internet class we were told that if we put up a website that talks about us going to Penn State-we cannot have the head anywhere or we could get in trouble for copyright infring....so, please explain to me (unless someone in your chapter is a descendant of Walt Disney himself) how you are all able to use ARIEL the Little Mermaid?

Very Original-by the way....

Tell me more. What kind of benefits does Disney give you?

I'm pretty sure that there is a performance fee when a hs or college puts on Grease or another recent play (guessing R & J is public domain at this point).

"Infringement rights" = oxymoron. If you're paying for the right, it's not infringement.

LOL!

And why did it take me a minute to decipher what this meant:

Lord.

I still don't know what that means.

I believe the translation is "what benefits?" which leads me to believe that not all members of the organization are clued into the infringement situation.

Another local there, Alpha Simga, uses Babs Bunny :)

Disney has actually sued day care centers which used their characters without permission, even though they were rather small operations. I can't imagine Disney licensing one of their characters for a local group - licensing fees are very high, and they have a very clear idea of what and how they use their characters. I'm pretty sure they don't need a local sorority to promote their characters. ROFL. Without any assurances of how it would be used, I would be shocked if it were indeed the case that WD has given the group carte blanche. Sorry, short of posting the agreement (and then I'd have to make a few calls) I don't buy it.
One reason cited by the artist for discontinuing Calvin & Hobbes is because of all the unauthorized use of Calvin (all those little peeing Calvins? Illegal - and I'd be shocked to find out the sorority using it has authorization.)
I'd think less of a group which used a trademarked, copyrighted character without the proper authorization. That's ILLEGAL - how can you claim to have high ideals and principles if you are willing to break the law?
There is a difference between using a mermaid, even one based on Hans Christian Anderson's story The Little Mermaid (which is in the public domain) and using Ariel, the character created by and vigorously protected by) Disney. There are lawyers who make a good living "helping" those who don't understand this.

I can say with 100% certainty that this is not the only illegal thing that they do. hazing is illegal also I don't think many people see using a copyrighted character as illegal because they are all over the place these days. It's sad.

*gasp* SWTX, do you mean they WOULDN'T be thrilled to have their sweet little mermaid associated with a girl giving the thigh-flash on their site? Or the all-in-bikinis-shot? I'm shocked. I would think that's exactly the image they're going for there at the family-friendly Disney-Giant-Corporate-HQ... :rolleyes:

Wait... ok, I take back the family-friendly part. Yikes!

That's too bad because being that it's a local organization, if Disney were to ever sue, the school would be just as liable.

oh man HAHAHA I'm so sorry but I have to laugh. I'm new to GC but new to Greek life and who does this little girl think she is. Paying DISNEY are you serious. Like honestly I dun think all ur daddy's money cud buy those rights hun. And you're just a Local sorority I could understand MAYBE if you're a national very well know and prestigious Greek organization Located maybe near Disney. Seriously are you kidding me. HAH you're probably not even in that sorority you're probably not even in A sorority and maybe saw people wearing those letters. I can't believe that if you were part of a sorority you wud bring this much disgrace to them. I feel bad for Kap Phi Chi I really do especialy if they are your sisters and they have to put up with the likes of you. Oh boy and this is me being Nice.

Oh well I'm sure glad I don't know them because, if they think the world revolves around them, things will not be pretty should there ever be a confrontation with any of them. They give sorority girls the bad reputations that we have and it disguts me. Especially when people try and clean our reputaton up girls like that come along.

I'm not sure how in the world you meant that, but it comes across as a really misinformed, harsh, and unneccessary slam on local organizations.

I really don't think that kind of infringement is ever ok, whether it is a national or local group that is doing it.

So, Buttonz, you know this group IRL...? And the word's not so good...? PM me please!

Hey, n00b, be careful calling out another org when you put nearly unintelligible posts like this out on a public forum. You already outed the org you're in on another thread (http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&postcount=301) though I'm not sure I quite believe it's true, if you're really one of their pledges, you might want to represent yourself better out of respect for them.

I'm more impressed with the myspace pic with them drinking beer and scarfing pizza and wings. About 1 in 3 pics just about everyone in the pic is holding a drink. I'm not against drinking in letters *gasp*, and I wouldn't get my panties in a bunch over 1 or 2 pics where alcohol is present, but these 'ladies' are ridculous.

Yay, AF in the middle of the day! Where have you been??? Let's get that blackberry hummin', mmkay?? ;):D

How do you think I'm so lightning fast? ;)

dity???:eek:

Ummm... hardly :rolleyes: I'd be more inclined to believe she was behind Chuck Norris than this...

oh well ariel is like the red headed step child anyway. why would you pick a mermaid instead of a real disney character like cinderella or sleeping beauty or jasmine?:confused:

Oh no she didn't!!! :eek::mad: Ariel was well before Jasmine's time! Them's fightin words!

LOL. Get the troll, Sthrn, get 'er! :p:D

Well, I mean, how can you say Ariel isn't a "real Disney character?" SERIOUSLY? It says Disney on the box, and before the movie starts. I may be mistaken, but that constitutes a Disney movie. And Ariel is a character in said movie. So.... yeah, you're just wrong RushLeader. And I'm sorry, but Ariel is WAY cooler than Jasmine. I'll give you that she may not be as "classic" as Snow White or Cinderella, but she embodies FR if you think about it: "Part of Your World." Need I say more?

Ok, off my soapbox.. for now, mwahaha!

i ment that ariel is a mermaid and not a human of course!:)

Isn't Chuck Norris behind Chuck Norris?

Chuck Norris elbows and drop kicks those who sneak up on him.

Nobody's behind Chuck Norris. Chuck stands against the wall. Can't have a blind spot behind him. Too dangerous. No weaknesses allowed.

How was Chuck Norris able to get a bid from Tri Delt if he had his back against the wall the whole time? Tri Delt gave him a bid because he put their backs against the wall.

Interesting.

Sadly, they do use that concept on their website.:(