Ironically this phrase was said by Jafar in Disney's 2019 live action remake of Aladdin, but wasn't part of the original 1992 version. And I personally would argue that this corporate remake is a worse creative "theft" than what random people are doing with GenAI.

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khuey 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Disney owns the 1992 production of Aladdin so who exactly are they "stealing" from?

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inanutshellus 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I assume he's saying Disney owns the 1992 film so the 1999 film is not theft, but he wants it to be because he doesn't like the 1999 film. Thus the quotes.

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wgjordan 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin

The argument, as I understand it is that the "theft" is in quotes because it's not literally copyright infringement, but fair use of an old public-domain folk tale that ends up consuming the latter.

Today, when kids know "Aladdin" they know the copyrighted/trademarked Disney character, not the traditional folk tale- that's the "theft" that happened.

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		If you subscribe to any concept of the public domain this is surely in it.

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JonathanMerklin 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll bite. What's your argument, or at least the comment-sized gist of it?

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runarberg 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I would call it cultural theft. But a better word is cultural appropriation, and the original cartoon—though iconic—did it worse. Aladdin was first written sometime in the 9th or the 10th century (oldest surviving complete manuscript of 1001 nights is from the 15th century). It was translated into English in the 18th century.

Disney made a cartoon of the story without understanding the culture it comes from with the main purpose of selling it to an audience with an even less understanding. And the results was a horrible misrepresentation of somebody else’s cultural heritage.