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The Cory Doctorow book "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" (readable for free online) captures the duality of Disney very well.

On one hand, it produces brilliant, creative, high quality work, and makes it accessible to everyone. On the other hand, it's quite willing to destroy everyone else's work in order to ensure it stays on top.

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> and makes it accessible to everyone

If you pay. It heavily litigates you if you even put a decal of their characters (many who were taken from common European folklore) in your child care center. Disney has been the worst influence on copyright law in the US. Tt's impossible to assess its impact but I wouldnt be surprised if the monetary value of that stiffing of use would be in the hundreds of million.

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