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So after 15 years, I can start selling other people's movies and books? That seems odd.


Public domain seeming odd is a major problem.


It's the timing that seems odd.


Why is that odd? Do you think it's odd that Disney is selling fables that they did not come up with? Shared culture belonging to everyone used to be what was normal.


>Do you think it's odd that Disney is selling fables that they did not come up with?

I don't, anyone is free to animate their own versions of public domain material and sell it? What's weird about that? Perhaps you don't understand how copyright law functions, but Disney has no copyright in the underlying fable.




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