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Originally Posted by HansTWN
No doubt those movies would also have been made if they could have just paid off the copyright holders. As movie budgets go, that is the smallest part. And for the most part, would we not prefer to see some new ideas, rather than rehashing old ones?
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It's not just about the money. The copyright owner has right to keep the ones who write the script from modifying the work. In the original story the little mermaid dies at the end. If there would have been a copyright owner they could have prevented Disney from changing the ending.