Your talking about a company that owns at least 50% of it's success to the i.p. of characters it didn't create. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast...i could go on. I don't think anyone would argue that the films they made, based on the work of others whom they did not pay, contained substantial original creative effort and that they deserve the success they gained from those films due to the significant changes they made. The great hypocrisy though is that Disney would not have nearly the success they have today if Disney had achieved then what they are striving to achieve today.