Disney recruits donations for political activities to employees

ByJane

Walt Disney Company is also famous for performing lobbying activities to extend the copyright of Mickey Mouse announced in 1928, and as a result it was enactedCopyright Law Extension ActIs as aliased as "Mickey Mouse Protection Act". Although Disney has a great influence to change laws and politics, Disney's chairman and CEO Mr. Bob Eiger sent an e-mail to employees to contribute to Disney's political action committee "DisneyPAC" I understood.

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News of the siteArs TechnicaObtain the contents of the e-mail from employees of Walt Disney Company. Mr. Eiger said in a mail the digital copyright law, TPP, the losing of Aereo who was sued by television stations broadcasting television programs broadcasted on the terrestrial broadcast via the Internet, political laws that took place in Disney in recent years After talking about a major event, I mentioned that the current Disney is showing a positive attitude toward lowering corporate tax rate.

Information providers who read the e-mail spelled "From this year to next year, the Congress is likely to become more active about copyright issues, including TPP approval and execution and tax reform," Disney employees I agree with Disney's political position "that he was very embarrassed by the assumption. "Especially concerning TPP there is a controversy, there are of course opinions as a company, but opinions are divided even inside the company."

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According to Mr. Eiger, DisneyPAC will be executed in a form deducting donation from employee salary. The information provider wishes to be anonymous, but according to the provider, it is unknown how many of the Disney employees received the mail. Ars Technica has contacted Disney for confirmation of facts, but as of the writing of the article, there seems to be no reply at the moment.

The company that seeks contributions to employees is not limited to Disney, and in 2012 the Citigroup of financial institutions donates to employees under the pretext of "to support both the private sector and the corporate sector" We are recruiting. Unless disturbing or intimidating duties are added when seeking donation, it is within the permissible range according to American law. It was clearly legal as I was told that e-mails sent to Employees by Mr. Eiger at Disney were told that it was not cooperative or not to contribute to donation to work.

Mr. Eiger's remuneration for 2015 was $ 45 million (about 5 billion yen).OpenSecrets.orgAccording to the 2014 election, DisneyPAC's expenditure is estimated to be 375,000 dollars (about 42 million yen), and he said he is making further expenditures for this term 's election. Even if I saw only January 2016, the donation collected reached 295,000 dollars (about 33.3 million yen), and it seems that they have already spent 231,000 dollars (about 26 million yen). Between 2002 and the present, the total total of the contributions made by Disney employees to Disney is 4,030,000 dollars (454 million yen).

ByTom Bricker