Hans Christian Andersen published "The Snow Queen" in 1844, which is roughly 169 years prior to Disney's release of Frozen. Frozen is a loose adaptation of "The Snow Queen," and for all intents and purposes, it is mostly new material. Andersen's heirs…
…story about an evil Ice Queen, so it makes sense that the early iterations had a fairly sinister Elsa. According to Wikipedia: > The 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Frozen was inspired by "The Snow Queen", and closely followed the original Andersen story early in the film's development. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen
…Disney itself is a talented and successful practitioner of building upon the public domain. In fact, the public domain is Disney’s bread and butter. Frozen was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. The Lion King draws from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Biblical stories, and possibly an epic poem about the founder of the Mali Empire.[3] Fantasia showcases public domain classical music, and “The Sorcerer’s…
The Little Mermaid is not a Disney creation, it is a story by Hans Christian Andersen, as is The Snow Queen which Frozen is (very loosely) based on. You can't trademark a story or idea, but you can trademark a particular character design. You can make your own Cinderella interpretation as long as you don't…
…Riffing and building on existing cultural artifacts does not erase them. Nobody's telling Hans Christian Andersen to shut up, and nobody's telling publishers to stop publishing him, and readership of The Snow Queen - the original version - is presumably much greater now than it was in 2012. My kids have specifically asked for it, while I wasn't even aware it existed as a child. On the other hand, the implied message…
Your examples of public domain movies take a rather flexible view of the source material. Frozen is a long way from The Snow Queen. A queen had powers over ice there where trolls and someone was saved by a kiss, but in the Snow Queen it was a guy saved by the kiss and the trolls where evil etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone…
安徒生在 1844 年发表了《Snow Queen》，大约比迪士尼推出《冰雪奇缘》早 169 年。《冰雪奇缘》是对《Snow Queen》的松散改编，实际上大部分都是全新内容。安徒生的继承人……
Hans Christian Andersen published "The Snow Queen" in 1844, which is roughly 169 years prior to Disney's release of Frozen. Frozen is a loose adaptation of "The Snow Queen," and for all intents and purposes, it is mostly new material. Andersen's heirs…
……一个关于邪恶冰雪女王的故事，所以早期版本里 Elsa 相当阴险也说得通。据维基百科：> 2013 年华特迪士尼动画工作室的电影《冰雪奇缘》灵感来自《Snow Queen》，在影片开发早期紧密遵循了安徒生原著故事。https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen
…story about an evil Ice Queen, so it makes sense that the early iterations had a fairly sinister Elsa. According to Wikipedia: > The 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Frozen was inspired by "The Snow Queen", and closely followed the original Andersen story early in the film's development. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen
……迪士尼本身就是个有才华且成功的公共领域再创作实践者。事实上，公共领域就是迪士尼的命根子。《冰雪奇缘》灵感来自安徒生的《Snow Queen》。《狮子王》取材于莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》、圣经故事，可能还有一首关于马里帝国缔造者的史诗。[3]《幻想曲》展示的是公共领域的古典音乐，而“魔法师的……
…Disney itself is a talented and successful practitioner of building upon the public domain. In fact, the public domain is Disney’s bread and butter. Frozen was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. The Lion King draws from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Biblical stories, and possibly an epic poem about the founder of the Mali Empire.[3] Fantasia showcases public domain classical music, and “The Sorcerer’s…
《小美人鱼》不是迪士尼的原创，是安徒生的故事，《Snow Queen》也是，《冰雪奇缘》（非常松散地）基于它改编。故事或创意没法注册商标，但特定的角色设计可以。你可以做自己的灰姑娘诠释，只要你不……
The Little Mermaid is not a Disney creation, it is a story by Hans Christian Andersen, as is The Snow Queen which Frozen is (very loosely) based on. You can't trademark a story or idea, but you can trademark a particular character design. You can make your own Cinderella interpretation as long as you don't…
……在现有文化产物上即兴发挥和再创作并不会抹掉它们。没人叫安徒生闭嘴，也没人叫出版商停止出版他的书，而《Snow Queen》——原版——的读者群现在想必比 2012 年时大得多。我的孩子们专门点名要它，而我小时候甚至都不知道它的存在。另一方面，隐含的信息……
…Riffing and building on existing cultural artifacts does not erase them. Nobody's telling Hans Christian Andersen to shut up, and nobody's telling publishers to stop publishing him, and readership of The Snow Queen - the original version - is presumably much greater now than it was in 2012. My kids have specifically asked for it, while I wasn't even aware it existed as a child. On the other hand, the implied message…
你举的那些公有领域电影的例子，对原著的理解未免也太“自由发挥”了。《冰雪奇缘》（Frozen）跟《白雪皇后》（The Snow Queen）差了十万八千里。虽然都是有个会冰雪魔法的女王、有巨魔（trolls）、有人被真爱之吻所救，但在《白雪皇后》里被吻救下的是个男的，巨魔也是邪恶的，等等。要是有人……我也一点不觉得奇怪。
Your examples of public domain movies take a rather flexible view of the source material. Frozen is a long way from The Snow Queen. A queen had powers over ice there where trolls and someone was saved by a kiss, but in the Snow Queen it was a guy saved by the kiss and the trolls where evil etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone…