Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s horror film might ruin your childhood, but it’s a win for creative freedom. Before Winnie-the-Pooh was anything else, he was the intellectual property of the English writer A. A. Milne, who invented the character after seeing a bear from Ontario in a London zoo. But fourteen months ago, Milne’s version of Pooh entered the US public domain. Suddenly, pretty much everything in Milne’s first Pooh collection—the characters, the stories, the line drawings by E. H. Shepard—was up for grabs.
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