Did you know that Disney is asserting their trademark on Snow White? They believe that they're the only studio allowed to make a film of the Snow White story, even though the Snow White fairy tale is in the public domain?

They are not successful though, are they? There is a low-budget snow-white based TV series that run a year ago (Once Upon A Time).

Also, it is ridiculous considering that character is way older than Disney itself and provably comes from outside US jurisdiction.

> They are not successful though, are they? There is a low-budget snow-white based TV series that run a year ago (Once Upon A Time)

Once Upon a Time is a (still active) series produced by ABC Studios, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group, which is in turn a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. The show incorporates dozens of Disney franchises (or, rather, the Disney versions of classic stories) entirely because of its ownership.

If it's the ABC "Once Upon A Time", that's Disney owned.

I'm looking forward to them asserting copyright over the Jungle Book characters. Sure, Disnet made their movie the year after Kipling's copyright expired, but it's the Disney movie versions that people know and love, not the versions from some old book that nobody reads any more.

That reminds me, I should download Jungle Book from librivox, I need more books to listen to.