Oookay. We know there was a time with no copyright and that some of Disney's work is based on those works. What isn’t established is that Disney could well have come up with his own stories is the others had been copywrited.
We know that Disney has a huge corporation that employs tens of thousands of people creating all kinds of products and services on top of its copyrighted characters and stories.
With all that - Disney's monopoly has had zero effect on other stories and characters being created. Society has not been held back in any way. Just the opposite....Disney creating a theme park that makes good money’s led to Universal creating its own theme park based on its own set of copyrighted stories and characters.
This is unlike medicine or technology where there is only a finite number of ways to solve a particular problem.
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