Disney steals idea? No way! ;P

[Alondro]

I-I just can't believe this accusation!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_en_tv/hannah_montana_lawsuit

Imagine!  Who would EVER believe that the stalwart and honest Walt Disno Corpo. would STEAL someone's idea and not even give them credit!  It's unheard of!  It's slander!  It's rape!  I'll not stand for it!  I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!   

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In case you didn't know, I was being sarcastic.   

[xHaZxMaTx]

Oh?  So you're all for it, then, eh?

[Zedd]

Well I know one thing for sure..Alittle off topic but it has to do with Disney..I cant belive this horror myself...Their going to direct the new Turok game..

[superluser]

The story was about a junior high school student who lived a secret double life as a rock star, according to the lawsuit.

Disney didn't steal it from Buddy Sheffield, they stole it from Hasbro:



And I'm not sure that I'd want people to know that I'd come up with a plot like that.

[Netrogo]

The list of things Disney has stolen over the years is probably long enough to be printed on paper, hung from the CN tower, and reach the ground.

The list of things Disney has lost lawsuits over however, not so long.

I remember having a huge discussion with someone once about this but the only one in particular that comes to mind is Monsters Inc. Someone had actually brought the idea of Monsters Inc to Disney a few years before they started making it, however Disney turned around and proved that their film was JUST different enough to count legally as a seperate idea.

[superluser]

The list of things Disney has lost lawsuits over however, not so long.

Indeed.  Ever hear of Twin Books?  It's been a long time since I've read the ruling, but they argued that Bambi was in the public domain so that they could take it out of the public domain.

And they won.

[RJ]

Hannah Montanna both confuses and annoys me. (No really, I don't know what's happening in that show. Is she like the Superman version of a pop star where if she puts on a wig she's suddenly unrecognisable?)

[Zedd]

Side note..IF you tell Disney of anything they made in the past or refuze put on VHS or DVD..They will look at you like a deer to a couple carlights

[GabrielsThoughts]

yes, Disney needs to make a sequel to Songs of the South, then re release the  original along with an unrated version of both films, and then market it to young children, and they can use modern technology,  to edit out the violent language of the film.

[Zedd]

Dont forget Return to OZ!

[Netrogo]

There is one time that I remember Disney losing big (and still losing to this day) it involved Alladin and Robin Williams.

In a nutshell, to get Williams on for the Genie rather then paying him a ton of money they offered him a percentage of the gross (The gross being the total money the film makes, ever) Disney didn't expect the film to do as well as it did. I forget the exact details (and I'm too lazy to look it up) but the amount they owed him when all was said and done was somewhere between ten and twenty million I think, but they refused to pay him. So he took them to court. The court case, and Williams anger about them trying to backstab him, were the reasons he didn't play the genie in the sequel.

Either way, Williams won the case hands down cuz he had the contract all nice and legal like.

[Alondro]

When I take over the world, I'll subject every Disney exec to watching an endless marathon of the old Smurfs movie.   I expect ~68% mortality after the first 24 hours. 

[Netrogo]

I expect ~68% mortality after the first 24 hours. 

We should be so lucky...