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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by eco on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:05PM (#16692245)
Cool. So if I just make a Mickey Mouse cartoon from scratch I should be good.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:23PM (#16693340)
Or a film about Snow White, Pinocchio, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty etc.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by hcknwscommenter on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:59AM (#16695410)
Sure. If you managed to actually do that. Of course courts are free to infer as to the unlikelihood of that.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:02PM (#16698828)
Disney's whole strategy was taking public domain works like those and making cartoon versions.

There's nothing legally stopping you from doing the same; Disney does not own these stories.

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