A lucky video with cute shooting stars falling! I feel his singing voice flows like a real shooting star, too!
	MTV Live and Loud 1998 Is he singing on the moon? This lighting effect on his face helps him look like another life-form on the planet at times:( C'mon this is not a horror song.
	Ok, this background sound effect is a bit nightmarish here. What is striking yet funny about this is how he calmly shows up and leaves the chaos with grace. He doesn't even act like a celebrity here ...(by putting on airs, that is ) but more of a mere passer-by. And we know that's why he's so special, am I right? Maybe a shooting star is a passer-by after all.
	The atmosphere of this stage is really nice, but he's just too fluffy to be considered a human in this video IMO. As for art in general, (not limited to Disney one) I almost always prefer hand-drawn, 2D art over 3D art because it's got a more human touch in it.

Disney : Dream to be bought or given unconditionally?

I'd like to thank Disney for having given Stephen a chance to sing this song. Thank you!!



★ It's all for protecting your dream......

For a company who borrows children's stories from someone else for retelling, Disney is well known for its passion to protect its own copyright. I've seen bakers in towns bake character pastries to please children, but I don't think I've ever seen Mickey ones.

In Japan, people are aware of their fate if they break this rule because there was a famous incident back in 80s, in which the huge Mickey and Minnie mouse painting on the floor (about 3m in diameter each. ) of the swimming pool completed by the graduating elementary school kids had to be completely erased because Disney didn't like how they created the commemorative art without their permission.

Today, they promise that they will give you the right to use the Disney intellectual property for non-commercial use if you get their permission but will they, really?

Let's say you want to knit a Mickey sweater for your grandchild. According to the Walt Disney Studios Licensing Website, due to its huge volume of requests, it may take up to 8 weeks to receive a response. (As of 2021) Hmmmm 8 weeks. Well, while it's good that it's not 8 months or 8 years, what is clear to me is that you'll need to be well prepared, planning everything well in advance and be very patient in order to be a successful Disney fan.

The picture below is Mickey found on Mercury by NASA's Messenger spacecraft in 2012. When this news came out, people were worried about the potential copyright battle between Disney and the planet. Maybe Mercury was the first to create Mickey. Who knows?

Recently I've come across an interesting article written by a patent attorney a few years ago. You may have heard of an infamous Mickey Mouse "life extension".
The congress in the US has been doing anything to save Mickey from falling into the public domain.

You'd think this is all because Mickey has bought them out, (maybe by inviting them to Disney world) but it's quite the opposite. The reason why the congress has been helping Mickey by fixing the existing laws is, according to the author, because the Walt Disney Company is one of the very few companies in the US that pays the tax to the government honestly.

So, being the dream master of worldly humans, it hasn't joined the Tax Haven club composed of wealthy corporations and individuals, for whatever reason.

Wow, you can clearly see how US politicians feel obligated to treat Micky politely like a king.

I see Disney's endeavors as an experiment of human imagination at mega scale.

While their business scheme's certainly becoming a bit too maniac (otaku) and favoring younger fans rather than being a family entertainment as initially intended to be, mostly due to its aggressive commercialism in an effort to overcome ever growing cost of expanding and maintaining the dreamland, those are the challenges that all capitalist societies have to equally face.

I hope it will keep their arms open wide and be a source of inspiration and happiness by sharing the dreams of people, not monopolizing them by selling.