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Originally Posted by leebase
I already stipulated that the unlimited copyright was only for works still being maintained. Because of elapsed copyright Disney was able to make money on Pinocchio...without recompense to the author or his heirs. You can too, btw. Everybody can as the story is in the public domain.
So we see how Roy Disney benefitted. How did society benefit? Instead of getting a new work, they get a story already told. And if you want to stick with “we got a movie” - technology has since made a movie like Pinocchio very unlikely. If Disney were to make Pinocchio today, there’d be 12 different Pinocchio movies released within a year. Nobody is going to invest Hollywood movie money in a property they don’t own the copyright for.
So today...because Pinocchio is in the public domain, there is LESS likelihood anyone is going to invest money making something special out of it. There are no end of folks willing to simply copy a work...that takes no effort and ensures there is very little reward for anyone trying to make use of it, Its the same reason copyrights exist in the first place.
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Just like Disney would never make another Little Mermaid movie because the Little Mermaid story is in PD, or that Alladin is in PD? Of course, Disney has done a live remake of the Little Mermaid. How many times have there been remakes of Beauty and the Beast? Disney made a ton of money on the live remake of their animated Beauty and the Beast in 2017, it's the 12th movie by that name, but that doesn't seem to be an issue, nor was there much confusion about which was the Disney version and which ones weren't.