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0 pointsop00to4y ago0 comments

Man, what a bummer. People have to come up with new ideas rather than rehashing old ones. How will we ever stay entertained?

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mahogany4y ago

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_...

yissp4y ago

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.

andybak4y ago

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.

rexreed4y ago

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

heavyset_go4y ago

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

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