Originally Posted by Robbie

As usual Gideon is wrong. He's babbling about Disney.

Let's look at the movies he used as examples:
The Little Mermaid Written by Hans Christian Anderson in 1837

Well I guess he got that one right. Only it's 172 years old. That doesn't exactly fit with Gideons bullshit about copyright extension that is currently in use.

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Beauty And The Beast: "The story of Beauty and the Beast has been around for centuries in both written and oral form, and more recently in film and video. Many experts trace similarities back to the stories of Cupid and Psyche, Oedipus and Apuleius? The Golden Ass of the second century A.D."

Sorry gideon, that one doesn't cut it. Nobody knows who wrote it.

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Snow White: "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs was a story from the Brothers Grimm fables.

No one knows the origin."

Nobody knows who originally wrote that one Gideon.

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Aladdin: "The original story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. No medieval Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian storyteller from Aleppo. Galland's diary (March 25, 1709) records that he met the Maronite scholar, by name Youhenna Diab ("Hanna"), who had been brought from Aleppo to Paris by Paul Lucas, a celebrated French traveller. Galland's diary also tells that his translation of "Aladdin" was made in the winter of 1709?10. It was included in his volumes ix and x of the Nights, published in 1710."

Nobody knows who originally wrote that one Gideon.

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Mary Poppins: "Mary Poppins was made into a film based on the series of children's books by Walt Disney Productions in 1964. According to the 40th anniversary DVD release of the film in 2004, Walt Disney first attempted to purchase the film rights to Mary Poppins from P.L. Travers as early as 1938 but was rebuffed because Travers did not believe a film version of her books would do justice to her creation and did not want an animated cartoon based on it. Disney finally succeeded in 1961, although Travers demanded and got script approval rights."

So they DID pay the author.

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In other words, Gideon is full of shit again. Fucking guy thinks everything should be free and hates anybody that works hard to make a living.

Took me 3 minutes in google to find out this info and disprove ANOTHER of his lies.