Wannabe Disney parks

Piebald

Piebald

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So..I work at a theme park. It's pretty cool and very different from anything out there (well as far as I know). They're opening up another in Jersey, Chicago and all over Asia.. It's a role playing theme park where kids come into an indoor city which is just their size and they can get jobs and get "paid" with money and they can use their money for other things in the city. I like it, the kids love it and it's very innovative... but one thing bothers me; they play Disney music!!! They continuously play loops of Indiana Jones, Aladdin, LOTR and other crap in the "jungle" section of the park. Today in the Circus, they played the Spectromagic theme. The park itself by no means is copying Disney, but it's kind of depressing hearing Spectromagic and knowing I'm not in Disney. Anyways I was wondering, is there some sort of loophole as to how this is possible or what? I know the Spectro was just a bunch of dumb Disney-obsessed kids playing it (the circus has their own tech who handles the music and stuff)... but when they play parts of movie music during the overall music loop, is it legal?
 
peter11435

peter11435

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Well, Indiana Jones and LOTR are not Disney. However in regards to Aladdin and Spectro I am not really sure however I would imagine it is illegal for them to use the music without permission especially the SpectroMagic music. But like I said I don't know for sure.

No offense but I know where you work and while I know they, do I would not consider them a theme park. I don't know what you could call it, but it should not be called a theme park.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Generally music is covered under the protection of ASCAP and/or BMI. What this means is that legally in order to play the music in a public venue , you have to pay the agency which governs that particular piece of music. (You can look at the label of a piece of recorded music and see either ASCAP and/or BMI somewhere in the credits.)
The fee is usually a one year contract which is prorated for the number of people which will be visiting the establishment.

Alot of bars/restaurants do not pay and then get a little surprise visit by ASCAP during there peak hours and then have to pay out the nose!!
 
Piebald

Piebald

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peter11435 said:
Well, Indiana Jones and LOTR are not Disney. However in regards to Aladdin and Spectro I am not really sure however I would imagine it is illegal for them to use the music without permission especially the SpectroMagic music. But like I said I don't know for sure.

No offense but I know where you work and while I know they, do I would not consider them a theme park. I don't know what you could call it, but it should not be called a theme park.
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Well.... it's a park... it has a theme....I don't know what else you could call it?
Sure it's not humongous but it's still pretty big.
 
GenerationX

GenerationX

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Piebald said:
So..I work at a theme park. It's pretty cool and very different from anything out there (well as far as I know). They're opening up another in Jersey, Chicago and all over Asia.. It's a role playing theme park where kids come into an indoor city which is just their size and they can get jobs and get "paid" with money and they can use their money for other things in the city. I like it, the kids love it and it's very innovative...
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This sounds like a lot of fun! I'll definitely take my sons to this when the one in Chicago opens.

This reminds me of a unit my 5th grade teacher taught called "The Economy". We designed money, and she printed it. She gave us jobs around the classroom to earn the money, and she set up a bank. People created their own "businesses" to get more money. At different points during the excercise, she increased our salaries and increased the money supply at the bank to illustrate what those actions did to the economy. This is where I first understood the concepts of supply & demand, inflation, and economics in general. The fact that I remember this nearly thirty years later speaks to the impression it had on me. Education at its best!
 
SIR90210

SIR90210

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themouseman said:
Wow that sounds really cool! what's the place called
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Wannado, or something along those lines. It's being opened (in the US) in conjunction with Millscorp, as in Vaughn Mills in Toronto.
 
peter11435

peter11435

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Piebald said:
Well.... it's a park... it has a theme....I don't know what else you could call it?
Sure it's not humongous but it's still pretty big.
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I agree I don't know what else you could call it. I just don't think it is a theme park, I think it is really just an intirely new concept.
 

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