Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875, the copyright is long expired but of course there might be other right-holders on the title or such. Why would you want t

Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875, the copyright is long expired but of course there might be other right-holders on the title or such. Why would you want to write his story like this? The whole point of it is for the girl to die in cold, a critique of society's downlooking stance on poverty; just like Jonathan Swift wrote in his work a century earlier and looking at the number of children in poverty in Europe and the US I'd say there's no happy end in sight. 30% of the children in UK live in poverty, 21% in Germany, even Finland (which simply houses the homeless) has a rate of 10%.