Free cultures are cultures that leave a great deal open for others to build upon; unfree, or permission, cultures leave much less. Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so.
Leaving a culture open leaves more room for people to build upon other's ideas. But at the same times gives more people the opportunity to copy other peoples work. A unfree culture leaves it harder for others to build off of other peoples ideas. We are becoming a more unfree culture with copy right laws.
Creators here and everywhere are always and at all times building upon the creativity that went before and that surrounds them now. That building is always and everywhere at least partially done without permission and without compensating the original creator.
Idea's people get come from culture and things around them. Does that mean that every time someone comes up with an idea that it's copied somehow and way?
Some things remain free for the taking within a free culture, and that freedom is good.
Sometimes it's ok to "take" or barrow idea's from other people, just as Disney did. Them taking other people's ideas doesn't mean they did something wrong.
We live in a world that celebrates “property.”
A big diverse modern society cannot be successful without intellectual property.
New York subways are filled with readers of Joyce or even Hemingway.
We don't understand other people's culture of film because we have never read/watched anything about it but still make judgments about it. While in a place like New York city there is different cultures all around us.
, “Walt Disney creativity”—a form of expression and genius that builds upon the culture around us and makes it something different.
Walt disney made films that related to people and to culture.
Disney took these stories and retold them in a way that carried them into a new age.
Disney took stories and told them in a new way.
In fact, the Grimm fairy tales are, well, for us, grim
Sometimes when people borrowed something they changed it a great deal or barley at all. A great example of this is fairy tails, they are based around evil stories but were changed into stores for kids.
With Disney, it was sound that gave his animation its spark. Later, it was the quality of his work relative to the production-line cartoons with which he competed.
Disney's sound was what gave him is spark and attention from other people. It was later him quality of work that kept people interested in his films/work.
The key to success was the brilliance of the differences
To be successful you had to use parts of other people ideas and present them in appealing way.
This “borrowing” was nothing unique, either for Disney or for the industry.
Disney borrowed ideas from other films when they made there films. This was common in the film industry.
. Synchronized sound brought life to a form of creativity that had rarely—except in Disney’s hands
Disney brought to life something special that no one else had. This set them apart from others.
Disney describes that first experiment,
Disney's first experiment was a huge success
the first widely distributed cartoon synchronized with sound, Steamboat Willie brought to life the character that would become Mickey Mouse.
Mickey Mouse, the first widely known cartoon.
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