cinderella

All of their technology would be far less valuable without Mickey, Elsa and Cinderella plastered all over it.

Alas, it sounds as if this is the classic Cinderella story with only mice and pumpkins at the end.

By making a Cinderella film did Disney gained the right to block subsequent works based on it?

Perhaps Cinderella was a poor example due to its origins as a folk tale.

Still, Cinderella 2.0 ought to be paid at least the legal minimum hourly wage in California by a famous fashion magazine, ought she not?

Many compare themselves with Facebook or some other Cinderella story.

I used Cinderella specifically, bc my understanding is the folk tale was very unlike (violent, gory, ect...) the Disney version tailored for children.

Let's substitute Mickey Mouse for Cinderella in my example.

Nope, you can still make a Cinderella film.

>Perhaps Cinderella was a poor example due to its origins as a folk tale.

What I think he meant, at least if I understood correctly, is that Disney stories and characters from the 30s and 40s, like Mickey Mouse et al, should themselves by all rights be public domain by now, like Snow White or Cinderella were, so that other artists could be inspired by them and create their own derivative works.

We're more than "Netflix for dresses"—we're Cinderella Experience as a Service.

You mean you don't like watching all those unskippable previews and commercials on your blu-ray, or "downloading" the included digital drm file off your disney DVD so you can take your copy of cinderella with you anywhere, anytime.* Or what about renting that great movie and having a 24 hour window to watch it.

Cinderella probably had her boring days once she was "living happily ever after", but the week or so it took to get hitched by the prince WAS just as dramatic as all that, and the outcome was worthy of the drama.

There would still be excitement, there would still be upsets, but the upsets would be based more on a cinderella team summoning their (admirable cheerable) "will to win" (or the champions failing due to hubris, cf tortoise and hare) and less due to statistical noise.

Cinderella - The prince was an idiot, he couldn't even recognise a woman he danced with all night.

Cinderella's Castle in DisneyWorld was to have an apartment for Walt Disney, though he died before it was completed.

It's like the way Shrek takes common tropes from Cinderella-type movies and turns them on their head, only serious instead of comedic.