I think Disney's deal is if you do it without permission. I know someone who cuts out stand-up Disney characters and paints them freehand. She obtained permission from Disney to make them and even sell some providing she doesn't make over a certain amount of $. Her yard even made the front page of her local paper.

The problem with images being distributed over the internet is the sheer numbers of people who will have access to them. In my time on the net, I've downloaded 1 mp3 and felt guilty enough to buy the damn cd. But one person copying a cd is very different than mass producing the cd and passing it out.

I would equate the copying of a cd to putting someone else's graphic work on your desktop and the sharing of graphic images via tubes and such to mass producing a cd and passing it to everyone you know. It's pretty obvious no one is qualified to "cast the first stone" but the more education that gets spread around the better eh?

...... Kendra