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Disney in Spain (1930–1935)

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  • Jose Bellido
  • Kathy Bowrey

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This article looks at the ways in which the global brand par excellence – Mickey Mouse – spread throughout Spain in the early 1930s. In tracing the creative and commercial interplay with the Mickey character we show how the Disney Company failed to obtain any significant intellectual property rights in its own name or obtain a sympathetic hearing by Spanish patent and trademark officials. Yet this was undoubtedly a period of significant global development of the Disney brand. With the attempt to explain such an apparent contradictory situation, this article highlights the importance of the management of particular struggles in the flux of desires, appropriation and investments that contributed to the emergence of the elusive ‘merchandising right’.

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  • Jose Bellido & Kathy Bowrey, 2018. "Disney in Spain (1930–1935)," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(8), pages 1275-1305, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:60:y:2018:i:8:p:1275-1305
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1299129
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