Lecturer in Law and Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone sums up in the New York Times the reasoning behind Disney tolerating YouTube mash-ups using the company’s characters:

Anthony Falzone, a copyright expert at Stanford, said, “media companies have been fairly tolerant of Internet mash-ups and parodies so far. Wholesale piracy is a much bigger issue, so that is where they are focusing most of their efforts.”

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