Until you realize the source material that made Disney what it is today is mostly in the public domain (while even their oldest adaptations aren't and -- if Dis

Until you realize the source material that made Disney what it is today is mostly in the public domain (while even their oldest adaptations aren't and -- if Disney have their will -- never will be). Could Disney have become this successful without free access to public domain works like Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book, One Thousand and One Nights, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and so on and so forth? Possibly. But insisting that their works should be protected far beyond the protections their source material ever had is hypocrisy at best, anti-competitive at worst.