Talk:Oswald the Lucky Rabbit/@comment-25987328-20151101192706/@comment-6032121-20151101205240

Second part is true — they should use him more. However, the first part is wrong; he wasn't ripped off Disney's hands. The producer had simply intended this:

Before that event, the Disney Studios were producing shorts for Charles Mintz (the producer), to whom the character belonged. However, the Disney Studio was still Walt's property, and the animators were under contract to Walt, not to Mintz; he merely sold Mintz the products. But Mintz wanted to trun the Disney Studios into his company's animation studio, so he made all of Walt's animators (Ub Iwerks excepted) sign a new contract to him, and then he offered Walt to sign to become the animation director of what was now a subdivision of Mintz's company. Contrary to what Mintz expected, Disney refused and said he was leaving Mintz with Ub Iwerks. Mintz's reaction was "Alright, but keep in mind that I own Oswald".

The point being, it wasn't the plan to rip Oswald off Walt; the plan was to put Walt under control.