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Re: Authenticity (Part Two)
🕑 Added 2023-07-25 13:00:08 +0000 UTC(continued)..Hans Christian Andersen was a novelist and all his works were gifts of his creative mind. Which is fine, but in the eyes of the "real" folklore collectors of the time like the Grimm Brothers, Andersen was just a disturbance. In fact, it is told that in sincere admiration of these German brothers Andersen once paid them a visit, but they being serious linguists and professors. bluntly showed him the door. So Andersen was definitely not authentic, which then begs the question, what is?
Well, possibly the short answer is we are free to create and reinterpret however we like - and in the meantime, need to be cautious that Walt Disney Company won't claim everything in the world as their IP.
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melangalade
man how optimistic I was when disney acquired star wars ... heheh how naive of me
Didrik Svahn
Hans Christian Andersen is a very famous and big author here in Nordic countries. As he is a beloved creator of many childhood tales. So if anyone is authentic then here belongs to that group. But yeah I agree we need to be wary of the Walt Disney company as they have claimed most of our western media as their IP. And how greedy they are when it comes to the public domain. Which is why we should hold them accountable and not just say that everything they do is “fine”
