Exactly. A good deal of fairy tale literature stems from the women of the 17th century French salons - some of their stories were then published by men like Perrault, who gets credited with being the "author" of tales which were largely part of a long oral tradition.

I once came across someone in an internet discussion who believed that Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was created and owned by Disney. I nearly cried... and what a perfect example of how the organizations most inclined to crack down on others for copyright infringement are happy to profit from the public domain works of others.