Disney is an animation company founded by Walt Disney in 1926. At that time, Disney created a character, hoping that it would become the protagonist of the animation and that he would bring good luck to the studio. This The character is not Mickey Mouse, but Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The work became very popular after being packaged and released by Universal Pictures. As of February 1928, 26 episodes of Oswald-related albums had been released, and peripheral products were also very popular.

When Walt Disney went to New York to discuss the next contract with Universal Pictures and hoped to increase the purchase price, he was asked to reduce the cost by 20%. Universal stated that it had bribed some of Disney's elite animators, and that the production of Oswalt the Lucky Rabbit no longer required permission from Walt Disney Animation Studios. This move not only caused Walt Disney to lose the copyright, but also caused the studio to lose a lot of money. Excellent animator.

Since then, Disney has become so pathologically obsessed with copyright that people from all walks of life are frightened.

In 2006, through a deal with Universal Pictures, Disney Animation Studio regained The copyright of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was returned, and he is now defined as Mickey's brother. The century-long pain of losing a child has come to an end, but can the psychological trauma be healed? Probably not easy. .

______The above text is excerpted from "Disney's Black History: The Tragic Origin of the Copyright Mad Dog" by Desultory on Tieba Forum