Talk:Yen Sid/@comment-27838199-20171021021335

I can see we have a bunch of purists removing my edits, so I will add them here. I am sure there are a bunch of people who don't want this information published, but guess what? It doesn't matter, because all of the information is the truth. You can try and delete the truth, but it always comes back to haunt you... The first appearance of the name Yen Sid was in the 1940 book Walt Disney's Fantasia written by Deems Taylor, which is the story he narrated live during certain screenings of Fantasia that year. That same year, in 1940, Walt Disney Productions published Fantasia in technicolor and fantasound." The name Yen Sid does not appear in this Disney publication. In 1983, John Culhane, Walt Disney Productions, published Walt Disney's Fantasia. The name Yen Sid does not appear in this publication.  Disney Interactive published "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" for the Atari 2600 in the same year. The name Yen Sid does not appear in the game nor in the written story line. The Sorcerer is referred to only as "The Sorcerer," although Mickey is the Apprentice. On June 20th 1999, the domain yensid.com was registered. This archive.org snapshot of the website from 2001 says:''"Ex-DOL... What exactly does this mean? If you are here, then you probably already know what it means. In a nutshell, Ex-DOL people are part of the few, the proud, the (usually :-) talented, still in therapy people who once were part of the Magic of Disney Online TM. The operative word here is "once", as in no more... This site will be dedicated to providing information for Ex-DOL'rs and posting info on get togethers."'' The archived page clearly shows a copyright 2000 notice. On December 17, 1999, Fantasia 2000 premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of a concert tour that also visited London, Paris, Tokyo, and Pasadena, California. Fantasia 2000 was produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, and was pushed by Michael Eisner after the success of the video release of the 1940 classic showed enough public interest to fund a sequel.  The Sorcerer's Apprentice was the only sequence from the original film to be included in the new release.  Yen Sid is not named in the film and in the introduction of the sequence by Penn and Teller, Mickey is referred to as "a little guy who never speaks and always messes things up." On December 20th 2006, The Walt Disney Company filed applications with the USPTO for three trademarks of the single word Yensid (not Yen Sid). The three applications, 77068790, 77068792, and 77068794, were for a wide variety of consumer products such as alarm clocks, jewelry, luggage, and sportswear. All three trademark applications were abandoned on May 17th 2010, when Disney failed to file statements of use for the three trademarks before the last extension period ran out. On February 7th 2007, Variety Magazine wrote: ''Nicolas Cage and Todd Garner will produce “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a live-action feature for Walt Disney Pictures. Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal (“Flicka,” “Eragon”) wrote the script, which takes its inspiration from the poem by Goethe in which an old sorcerer leaves his workshop, in the hands of his apprentice, who’s not yet fully trained in magic. The apprentice gets a broomstick to do his chores for him but things get out of control when the broom takes over. The tale was the basis for the sequence in Disney’s animated classic “Fantasia.”''The film was announced by Disney on February 12th 2007, and was released to theaters on July 14, 2010. One has to wonder if Nicholas Cage's character was supposed to be named Yen Sid instead of Balthazar Blake.It should be noted here that the only way to force someone to surrender a domain name, is if the domain name violates your trademark, or if you can prove it is your personal name.