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  1. Aug 2024
    1. Mulan uses expedient means to carry out a task and, having succeeded, seems to return to exactly who she was when she began

      You can call this women's empowerment, but only on a personal level.

    1. If Mulan accepted this invitation, the remake would head in the same direction that Caro has attempted before: characterizing women, either Josey and Glory in North Country or Mulan and Xianniang in Mulan, as agents fighting structural injustice and gendered oppression together.

      But Disney decided not to let that happen.

  2. Jul 2024
    1. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled, on July 3, 2012, that it is indeed permissible to resell software licenses even if the digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, and that the first sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an unlimited amount of time, as such sale involves a transfer of ownership, thus prohibiting any software maker from preventing the resale of their software by any of their legitimate owners.