animation based on children book...

[nikolas1977]

About copyrights there is a very simple example, which I'm 99% that it is true!

Everybody can make a mouse that talks and walks and drives and has a girlfriend. No one can name him Mickey!

Ideas cannot be copyrighted, names can.

Ideas can be patented though! I don't know if this helps.

Moreover copyrights die 70 years after the death of the creator. This is why you have dozens of Cinderellas and so on. But the editions are much much younger and much much alive. So take care into what you copy but generally old stories, can be reproduced with no fear!

Even better, I guess that you can take most Dinsey animated films (Aladin, Pokhondas and so on) and use the story. It's not theirs!

Hope it was helpfull...

If you want something newer and the creator is alive, chances are that he/she may not mind having a short film about her/his book.

[mocaw]

Many people take a cultural "myth", switch out some characters, change the time period and wala- nice story. It's not that easy, but here in the west I know that 90% of stories can be traced back to european (mainly greek, roman etc.) and mid-east stories, legends etc.

I'm sure there is a traditional malaysian story you known that can be used in this way- royalty, patent, and copy right free.

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