Spitting on the Grave of C.S. Lewis: How Copyright Became Literary Colonialism
Meryl Streep has been cast as the voice of Aslan in Greta Gerwig's Netflix adaptation of The Magician's Nephew, reimagining Narnia as a rock opera with an Aslan design inspired by David Bowie — featuring mismatched eyes, a red facial scar, fur mixed with feathers, and a more griffin-like appearance than a traditional lion. The casting and redesign sparked intense reactions, but the deeper argument is that copyright law itself is the villain. Under the original 14-year copyright term, The Chronicles of Narnia would have entered the public domain in 1978, allowing anyone to tell an Aslan story…
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