You know I'm against copying without permission. I noted from that Snopes reference this statement: "the use of Disney characters falsely suggested Disney's affiliation with the day care
facilities." THAT I can definitely understand.

I made a pattern for a 1/10 scale Sherman M4A1 ( still have it ) and further made a female plaster backed fiberglass mold from it. I pulled several fiberglass copies from it and gave one to
a friend in Europe. Some time later I came to learn that there were copies of my original floating around Europe. I was NOT amused.

I've been asked in the past to lend my master patterns for some of my original work so that parts may be made. I refuse. I consider my original work to be just that, mine. I'm more than
willing to sell original copies that I make from those masters. I attempt to embed characteristics that are difficult to remove in my masters. In the case of that Sherman hull not only was
it obvious that the characteristics had be changed but someone else's name cast into the part .

So yes I understand that it is not legal or moral to copy another person's work. I will never do it. In the case of the Nautilus hull at the time I had no way to know it wasn't make under license as the
documentation included was minimal. I suppose as a rule of thumb if someone doesn't state it I should assume it is not.

Jerry