Sadia’s Blog

Here we go again indeed! I woke this morning to about fifteen emails directed towards my lack of knowledge and my ineptness towards certain topics (Raggedy Ann/Andy and Mickey Mouse) on my blogpage. Reading the first few emails had my eyebrows raised but when email upon email was directed towards me personally, I had to start figuring what was going on!! Cup of tea really helped, LOL and then I read the “aha” email from a dear friend who sent me links to various boards. Well, dear friends, I’m not exactly laughing out loud rolling on the floor but rather I’m saddened by the immaturity of many friends who think it wise to blast someone without knowledge of the person or of the topic involved. I think it was not too long ago that I wrote something to the effect that kindness has its rewards and if we cannot say something nice perhaps best not to say anything at all. Oh well….we are humans after all!

I would like to clarify one thing about this blog page please. This is my blog and I can write what I want but (and please note the but is underlined….bold etc) at no time do I ever post anything which is not true. All my writings here regarding various topics are carefully researched, carefully talked with several officials knowing the topic before I even pen it. No one has to believe anything however, that is their right.

Raggedy Ann and Andy are trademarked, copyrighted images etc. When I had questioned this I had been led to several websites including Simon and Schuster….oh yes, the famous Simonsays website dealing with any of the children’s books etc and their legalities etc. http://www.simonsays.com/content/feature.cfm?sid=686&feature_id=461 The link I believe says it all!

As far as dear Mickey Mouse is concerned….the darling figure is the logo for Disney and from what I understand now the copyright on him has been extended so no he will not be in public domain for quite a long while, at least not in my lifetime.