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Disney is both the best and worst when it comes to the public domain. It shows what you should do with it: take something that exists, remix it, release it, and
by cocacola1 3y ago
Disney is both the best and worst when it comes to the public domain. It shows what you should do with it: take something that exists, remix it, release it, and even create a successful media & entertainment company. But efforts to aid extensions to the term of copyright expiration will – if they haven't already – have a deleterious effect.
- chii 3y ago> shows what you should do with it: take something that exists, remix it, release it, and even create a successful media & entertainment company. and also shows you what to do to prevent other people from doing the same so that you get a monopoly.
- ddingus 3y agoHad the Brothers Grimm taken the Disney view, there would have been no Disney, or at the least, a very different, far less compelling one.
- goto11 3y agoThe Grimm Brothers didn't write the stories, they collected and published folktales. In any case they would have been been out of copyright since Jacob Grimm died in 1863. Disney didn't mind paying for the rights if they wanted to use material still under copyright, like they did for Bambi or Dumbo or many others.
- ddingus 3y agoThey did mind ceding rights, and that is where it all breaks down for a lot of people.