Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4598697-20141231215255

I've noticed that several of us have brought up the issue of public domain - a good example being that with non-fairytale sources, it's best that they're in the public domain like Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, etc.

Now the thing is...there are legitimate fairy tales that, as far as I know, are only available in English through books that aren't in the public domain. Some very old stories were only translated recently (the fairy tale Starlight is a good example - it was probably written at the end of the 1600s/start of the 1700s, but as far as I know it wasn't translated into English until about 20 years ago). A lot of old French fairy tales have never been translated. There are a lot of variants of Cinderella, Snow White, and other fairy tales that are real fairy tales but the website isn't available to provide them due to copyright restrictions. A lot of these are from more recent fairy tale collections, which explains a lot. 