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Originally Posted by Robbie
I already showed you in an earlier thread that that statement is a complete fucking lie. YOU are a liar gideongallery.
Anybody can quickly google up Snow White and see that Snow White was a fairy tale told in many European countries for centuries. And then compiled by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800's
It's called a TRADITIONAL fairy tale because NOBODY KNOWS WHO FIRST TOLD IT. Just like a "trad" blues isn't "public domain" either you idiot. It's considered to be something universal that just "is". What an idiot you are gideongallery.
Nothing in this court case would have affected Disney from writing their own version (which is what they did) based on a TRADITIONAL FAIRY TALE
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care to explain why the first printing has a copyright notice then
the brothers grim did just retell the old stories the COMBINED multiple versions into a single unique story. That why it was worthy of being copyright. The original stories that the merged were public domain. That what allowed them to merge them to derive new copyrighted works.
disney was able to make a movie based on the work because it became public domain after the copyright expired
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if public domain get reverse and put back into the copyright monopoly then the permutation of combined elements from the original story that was the brother grim version would be illegal to derive from.
That would most certainly effect disney snow white which used the key elements (mirror, dwarfs, poison apple, sleep) that grim used.
for the record the snow white fairy tale which featured the apple that grims brother used as the apple was cursed not poisoned, snow white choked to death, and the robbers (not dwarfs) used her death to rally the peasents to over throw the evil queen and killed her.