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mattkevan
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Most of the classic Disney films are based on public domain stories.
If there were copyright, those works wouldn’t have been created.
dehrmann
on June 6, 2025
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I hadn't put this together, but "The Great Mouse Detective" is a riff on Sherlock Holmes, but that didn't enter the public domain until much later. Would it have been
better
if it used the character and not just the general vibe?
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If there were copyright, those works wouldn’t have been created.