Ruth Suehle

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Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.

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The public domain black hole

K-Jow--Disney's relationship with US copyright law is worth an entire post of its own. It's not entirely true to say that they own the entire concept of every classic (public domain) story they co-opt. Here's the story of Mulan--the Disney version and others:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1944598,00.html

But part of the purpose of the public domain is to encourage future creativity, so I can't entirely fault them for using it. Like I said--this could be an entire discussion of its own. I'll put it on my to-do list.