Except... Disney heavily relies on rehashing old ideas from the public domain. That same public domain that they fight against. If the Brothers Grimm were still under copyright, would Disney even have been started?

For example, you may want to take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_animated_films_...

Huh, Snow White (1937) was released 74 years after the death of Jacob Grimm (1863). Didn't Disney lobby for the extension of copyright to 70 years after the author's death? I wonder if that's why they decided on that number.

That's not how culture works. Nothing is truly new and most creative works have been variations on those that precede them. The obsession with originality is remarkably recent and doesn't withstand much scrutiny.

No new idea emerges in a vacuum. Every idea builds upon other ideas. Ever heard of the phrase "on the shoulders of giants"?

It gets boring re-inventing the wheel over and over again.