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Re:What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 by peller on Sunday January 01, 2017 @09:45PM (#13298723)
The ironic thing is, most of Walt Disney's biggest hits were all based off of others' works in the public domain. A fact whose implications are sadly lost upon the people who continue to rubber-stamp copyright term extensions.
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Re:What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 by kagamine on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:13AM (#13299766)
Like these classic fairy tales that were folklore until written down and of which many exist in the collective consciousness of western civilization: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls003947956/
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Re:What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 by touristtam on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @12:19PM (#13320081)
Charles Perrault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrault) and Grimm's fairy tales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms%27_Fairy_Tales) are better read anyway.
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Re:What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 by kagamine on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:48AM (#13335384)
My daughter wanted me to read The Little Mermaid to her, so we read from HC Andersen's book. That story was brutal. I don't think either my daughter or I were expecting that bleak lesson in life.
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Re:What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2017 by touristtam on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:09AM (#13372715)
Yes the original fairy tales are usually quite grim: a far cry from their disney version. The advantages of the compilation of tales from the Grimm brother is there are a lot of them to pick from. ;)
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