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I know the Burroughs estate is a litigious bitch, but before Tarzan returned in Once upon a Studio and the remake rumors. Disney had to “acquire“ the film rights to the film rights to Tarzan and they didn’t use him for years cause fans claimed Disney had no rights, but here is the thing. Tarzan is in the public domain!

The first book, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs was published in 1912, under the old law and because it was renewed on time it entered the public domain in 1987. Some later Tarzan works made after 1930 like the newspaper comic until 1935 and some books and movies are also public domain as they weren’t renewed. As of 2026, most of not all of the Tarzan books by ERB entered the public domain in the United States.

Yet because of the weird using trademarks as mutant copyright law thing, despite Dastar vs Fox ruling this as invalid the estate is nroable for being litigious and has sued people like Dynamite, despite this they weren’t that successful as there were still unauthorized Tarzan works like the golden films adaptation. because they had a “trademark“ on Tarzan, its why Disney had to “acquire” the rights and also likely due to the later books being copyrighted or whatever.

However despite Tarzan not appearing in Kingdom Hearts due to claims of rights and such, it’s not that accurate.

Because of the characters public domain status and because it is likely Disney still owns the rights to their version of the character and because since 2019 all of Burroughs works fell out of copyright in Europe, Disney seems to being Tarzan again in some media such as The Simpsons and Once upon a Studio.

I honestly hope this is the case because having to “acquire” rights to a public domain work is complete crap in my opinion, this happened with Zorro and Conan (yes Conan is public domain as the characters debut was never renewed, yet Conan Enterprises claims they own the character.) Estates using trademark law to bypass copyright is always a failure..

Feel free to disagree, but while I am a Stitch fan we deserve more Tarzan content.

Ik the first four books became free this year, but I heard three non renewed ones are also included, two revised and one original series book which fell out of copyright in the 1980s due to pre-1964 renewal requirements for works or else they would enter the public domain after 28 years. So here is a download to the ebook.

Feel free to disagree with me, I can respect anyone’s opinions here.

1. I’m tired of people meming or claiming mulitple misconceptions about the show or taking it too seriously like claiming David and Jane being bad parents (this isn’t really that true to be honest, we need to remember we are viewing from Arthur’s POV so while he may think they prefer DW over him sometimes they still clearly love and care for their son and it’s supposed to be relatable and realistic to real life kids.) Let alone I think they are the best cartoon parents in my opinion because compared to true bad cartoon parents like modern day Peter and Lois, Butters’ parents and others David and Jane love both their kids equally and are really caring and loving characters equally. I get kinda mad to see them on worst cartoon parents lists sometimes which makes me feel like these people never watched the show or idk. yes David and Jane are not perfect sometimes but not all parents have to be perfect and I feel like people take that episode “Arthur’s Big Hit” and other divisive episodes as being “proof” of bad parenting too seriously a bit, which leads me to my second point.

Also I’m tired of some fans claiming Arthur and DW hate each other which is also far from true, even at DW’s worst, they are supposed to be realistic silblings and do love and care for each other equally. I don’t really like the fist meme personally, and I only see the show myself as wholesome entertainment, Feel free to disagree but yeah

2. The flash animated seasons are not that bad, I grew up on this era personally and the writing compared to modern SpongeBob and Simpsons is still as good as the older seasons. I also defend modern Spongebob and Simpsons but we need to remember this is technically Arthur for the new kids of today. My favorite episodes were Framed and the Halloween one where Ladonna and DW play a prank on Arthur.

3. I don’t consider “Arthur’s Big Hit” and other divisive or hated episodes as canon, and I often skip them when rewatching the show.

4. I like Ladonna and Ted. to be honest I never knew they were hated in the first place. I am southern myself so their introduction was amazing.

5. Arthur’s Missing Pal was not that bad, just mid as hell. I do like the 3d versions of the characters though as their designs are much more closer to Brown’s books than the TV show.

6. I don’t ship Arthur and Francine, I instead ship Arthur and Fern but I can’t say why as it’s personal. I mostly ship Francine and Muffy together too.

Okay, this is getting out of hand,

I was watching this video by a guy I’m not saying his name of because I don’t want people attacking him, it was a joke video titled is Thomas the Tank Engine R—ist

yes he censors the word racist, why the hell?!

Youtube is becoming orwell’s 1984, I understand you don’t want to be aka demonetized but WHY THE HELL CENSOR THE WORD “RACIST”?! That word while really a bad and serious topic should be uncensored when talking about those problems. Seriously I hate when people monetize content related to true crime like rape and suicide because I think it’s disrespectful to the victims, but the word ”racist”?!

Seriously, in the US ai slop is not copyrightable, yet pro-AI people claim adding human touch to it adds protection. Really?! I don't think that is true.

It would protect the edits themselves but not the original image, thats like saying drawing a penis on tung tung tung sahur gives him copyright when it does not.

Ai images, characters and music, are public domain no matter what people say.