Yup, Disney is a masterclass in copyright trolling. They’re great at finding ways to copyright works that were previously in the public domain. All of those fairy tales they based their movies on? Good luck making your own material with those fairy tales now, because Disney has claimed them and will sue your ass by saying it’s derivative of their copyright. Even if it’s not, and is only based on the original fairy tale, they’ll bury you in legislation and wait for your legal fund to run out.

That’s why a lot of the modern retellings fall into the “dark and gritty” side of things, because that’s one of the few ways to keep Disney from issuing a Cease and Desist. Because Disney can’t easily claim it’s directly infringing on their happy-go-lucky intellectual property.