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Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by mahogany on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:40PM (#30065753)
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_...

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Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by yissp on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:38PM (#30066755)
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.
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