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Mickey Mouse does not need your protection
Since Mickey Mouse became public domain, I’ve seen some really wild takes and misinformation going around. Yes, Mickey Mouse is public domain. No, you do not need to protect him. It’s fine if people other than Disney make Mickey Mouse stuff, even if you don’t like the things that are made.
You are not protecting Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse is not real. Even if he was, you STILL wouldn’t be protecting him. You’re just sticking up for a megacorporation. Disney has more money and resources than you will ever have and they horde them. You shouldn’t be trying to help them do it.
Disney is a company that loves using public domain properties to make things. They have just tried their absolute hardest to make sure that nobody else could do the same thing. If you think Mickey Mouse should only be used by Disney, you should be upset that Disney made money off public domain stories like Snow White and Rapunzel.
What about things like Winnie the Pooh? Disney didn’t come up with him but they were happy to make money off him. They bought the rights to him and then didn’t share.
‘Ah!’ I hear you say. ‘But Winnie the Pooh actually helps prove our point! When Disney – that poor poor super rich company that should be protected – lost the exclusive rights, a Winnie the Pooh horror movie was made! That’s not in the spirit of the original character!’
Firstly, you can just ignore that movie if you want. I did. Nobody is making you watch it. You are responsible for your own media consumption.
Secondly, there are nice Winnie the Pooh stories out there that aren’t by Disney or the original author. The Pooh books by Jane Riordan are lovely. Her stories are much more in the spirit of the original character than a lot of the Disney comics were.
This is an official Disney comic with Winnie the Pooh
This is a picture from one of Jane Riordan’s Winnie the Pooh books
One of them is sweet, kind and in the spirit of the original character. The other is Disney owned and approved.
What would the original author A.A. Milne think of the different adaptions and new works? Well, we don’t know because, at the end of the month, he’ll have been dead for 68 years. However, I can quote one of the original Pooh books about sharing,
And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.
Thirdly, Disney does not respect authorial intent.
PL Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, did not want Disney to make a movie based on her work. She got coerced into letting them make one. She hated the movie and refused to let them make any more.
What happened after she’d died, the ban on them making more Mary Poppies movies ran out and they got their hands on the rights? They made a sequel.
I think you should be more upset that Disney went against the direct wishes of an author than the fact regular people can now use a character that megacorporation uses. PL Travers was a person. Disney is a company. There is a difference.
I love the original Mary Poppins movie. I don’t care about or like the sequel. However, PL Travers died in 1996. People should be able to use the character now, no matter how you or I feel about those newer stories. Again, you can just ignore them if you want.
The original stories are still there.
Royalties are different to public domain. The profits from PL Travers original books go to her descendants and the Cherry Tree Foundation. They will continue to go there for 80 years after her death and then the royalties will be shared out among any decedents who are alive at that time. The money from those books will continue to go there, no matter what new stories with Mary Poppins get made.
You all seem okay with Disney making money off public domain stories and buying the rights to other stories. Why can't you extend that right to other people?
No one has stolen Mickey from Disney. Disney can and will continue to make money off him. All that’s change is that other people can now do that too.
#mickey mouse#steamboat willie#disney#public domain#snow white#rapunzel#winnie the pooh#A.A. Milne#Jane Riordan#PL Travers#mary poppins#art#comics#long post#Winnie the Pooh isn't actully public domian in the UK yet#If anyone was wondering#He will be in two years#70 years after A.A. Milne died#That's too long#It's not like Pooh becoming public domain steals the royalties
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Mary Poppins (1964) Directed By: Robert Stevenson
#mary poppins#robert stevenson#liteature#pl travers#userpavlova#userkraina#duchessofhastings#singinprincess#underbetelgeuse#ours#by natty#usermills#userlyddy#userleahrose#sheisraging#userhailee#tuserheidi#usershreyu#agentplant#rogerhealey
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The film Saving Mr Banks is one of my guilty pleasure movies, and I’m not the biggest Mary Poppins fan, although I’ve read all of the books. It balances comedy with tragedy, and I know that a lot of it was clearly dramatised for the sake of a good story, but I still teared up watching the relationship between the real Travers and Helen Goff, and the effect that Travers’ alcoholism had on his family, because it was all so heartbreaking. There was a slight sense of karma in PL Travers battling against Disney, not taken in by the glossy facade that the company displays, and Tom Hanks was a very believable Walt Disney - I just can’t believe that they included his smoking habit! Disney worked hard to keep that little tidbit out of the public eye, photoshopping it out of pictures with the flimsy excuse of ‘The Disney Point’ which cast members are still forced to do, all in the name of maintaining a family friendly image: I know this movie was made by Disney and is therefore slightly biased, but as someone who loved bonus features on dvds as a child, the chance for a peek behind the curtain on one of the most famous Disney films is wonderful, and it just feels so real. Go and watch Saving Mr Banks if you haven’t already, it’s a great movie.
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☂️🐧 Mary Poppins and Wendy Darling ✨✨
#Mary Poppins#Wendy Darling#Peter Pan#character study#Disney fanart#crossover#Disney movie crossover#Disney face characters#Disney Parks#Return To Neverland#Saving Mr. Banks#Mary Poppins Returns#Peter Pan & Wendy#Julie Andrews#Kathryn Beaumont#Your Mother and Mine#Feed the Birds#Walt Disney#JM Barrie#PL Travers#Mary Poppins and Wendy Darling#Disney 100#British literature#1950s movies#1960s movies#Mary Poppins 1964
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10 Years Ago , On December 13th & December 20th
Disney Presents
The Based On True Story Of How The Wonderful & Great Walt Disney was able to win the Heart Of P.L. Travers on making a Disney film of the Magical & Loveable
Mary Poppins ☂️
Spurred on by a promise he made to his daughters, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) embarks on what would become a 20-year quest to obtain the movie rights to "Mary Poppins.
" The author, P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), proves to be an uncompromising curmudgeon who has no intention of letting her beloved characters become mangled in the Hollywood machine.
However, when the books stop selling and she finds herself in need of money, Travers reluctantly agrees to consider Disney's proposition.
Witness The Story Of How 2 Icons Made A Magical Adventure Of A Woman's Tragic Life story Become A Story Of Hope
Because 1 Mouse 🐁
& 1 Nanny Of Pure Magic ☂️
Came Together ❤
Where Her Book 📖 Ended....
Their Story Began ....
Disney Presents
TOM HANKS AS THE GREAT WALT DISNEY 🐭
&
EMMA THOMPSON AS THE LEGENDARY P.L. TRAVER'S
IN
DISNEY'S SAVING MR. BANKS ☂️🐭✨
HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO DISNEY'S SAVING MR. BANKS
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL #SavingMrBanks #WaltDisney #PLTravers #MickeyMouse #MaryPoppins #Disney #HappyHolidays
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Valeria Popova’s illustrations for Mary Poppins Opens the Door by P.L. Travers.
#valeria popova#mary poppins#mary poppins opens the door#pamela travers#pl travers#british literature
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Mary Poppins and Bert are either a bi woman/bi man couple, or each other's beards
#helps that the author of the original books was bi herself#mary poppins#bert mary poppins#julie andrews#dick van dyke#p. l. travers#p.l. travers#p l travers#pl travers#gay#bi#bisexual#bisexuality#lgbtq+#queer
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These documentaries were both very interesting, especially the bottom one.
ETA: I enjoyed the documentaries, but neither mention she and a woman lived together for years, so I wanted to include a link to the wikipedia article too.
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Let's take a look at the life of author P. L Travers on her birthday! | Charlie Halfhide
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97 years ago today, Mary Poppins made her first appearance in a newspaper short story.
I found it a few years back, after searching for more than a decade, and have presented it for comparison at MaryPoppinsAndTheMatchMan.com
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“How does one get to be a bit of a bee? I've always remembered that phrase and have come to believe that the way to it is to recognize that in spite of one's knowing - all the stuff that has been picked up, or poured in along the way - one is always in some very deep sense in from of the Unknown; and I mean the Unknown as absolute and unknowable, that which unremittingly evokes the question without ever guaranteeing the answer. I think that it is only by taking this far from comfortable stance that one becomes able to receive the intimations that the Unknown is continually sending back to us, as a river at its sea-mouth sends back news of the sea to its source.” -PL Travers, What The Bee Knows
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Mary Poppins
Título: “Mary Poppins”
Autor: P.L. Travers
Año: 1934
País: Reino Unido
Idioma: inglés
Este lo escuché en audiolibro, al igual que Ángeles y Demonios. Me daba curiosidad porque había visto dos veces la película “Saving Mr. Banks”, que es sobre el proceso de convertir este libro en película. Me llamaron la atención las diferencias con respecto a la película. Lo más crucial es la poca importancia que tiene el personaje Bert en el libro (es el personaje que hace Dick van Dyke en la película). Por lo que tengo entendido, el personaje aparece en varios libros, y de esa manera se convierte en recurrente. Pero en el primer libro aparece en un solo episodio, y sin los niños. Parece ser que el capítulo en el que visitan muchas partes del mundo y se encuentran con diferentes animales fue editado en 1981. En la versión original, visitaban gente de diferentes partes, y los estereotipos eran un poco fuertes, con lo cual el libro estaba un poco estigmatizado a causa de ese capítulo. Los tiempos cambian, las cosas cambian. Es el mismo pensamiento que tuve leyendo “El mundo de ayer”, de Stefan Zweig.
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Can you spot the mistake on this page from Mary Poppins Opens the Door?
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Found this 1965 reprint of Mary Poppins in the Park at a local second hand book shop in Aberdeen. Smells a little musty like all old books do but it’s absolutely beautiful and I’m so glad I found it.
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its so hard to compliment old people because i cant use tag tones and i have no idea how to explain 'its giving nice granny helps me draw' without sounding condescending :"(
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hi neil! sorry to bother you with an ask you probably get a lot, but how do you make your writing captivating to read? I have a decent plot and some nice characters, but i feel like my writing is still very bland, and it's not doing the concept justice. there are a lot of books that are an absolute joy to read because of how wonderful the actual writing is, and i'm wondering how one goes about adding that element to their writing.
neil fans pls don't angry dm me like last time, that was really weird
A lot of it is experience. Do it enough and you will. As with anything— learning to play the piano, say — you are going to get more accomplished as you do it. That being said, some things you can learn. And one way to learn those things is to copy.
Find authors with recognisable and delightful styles, whose work you love, reread them and then try writing a paragraph in their style. Pretend to be Dickens or Ray Bradbury, PL Travers or e e cummings and see what happens. See what you do with words.
My first book (unpublished and not very good) doesn’t read like me at all. It reads like a weird mixture of Noel Langley and Hugh Lofting and Roald Dahl. But there is a page about 3/4 of the way through that reads just like me.
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