Since Disney's go-to strategy is to attempt to outspend their opponents whether they are in the right or in the wrong, I hope that Elon Musk funds this guy's lawsuit. This seems to me like one of the most cut-and-dry cases of plagiarism with seemingly even more evidence than the claim that Disney stole the idea for the Lion King from an anime!

I honestly don't believe he should the lawsuit then. He should found his own company and create something Disney cannot create first.

I’m pretty sure that people like her see “white” as a lack of characteristics, not a characteristic in itself. Like a blank canvas to be painted black. Not that she is likely to have any issues with painting over other colours as well.

I'm from the future: They settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money. You're welcome.

Not going to defend Disney here; but the case is weaker than you seem to think. Mainly because not only does Plaintiff have to provide credible evidence that he had the ideas FIRST... there's the argument of whether it was in fact done with malicious intent. Plagerism laws do exist within a grey area that states there's a set bar of similarity in order for something to legitimately be called as such. If the main character for example passed X bar. If ALL of the cast, passed X bar - or the actual content of the plot passed X bar; then yeah. But the ideas presented aren't necessarily unheard of (if gender is added into the mix that's another credible defense - if personality is markedly different, it gets harder to prove it was done maliciously in the first place. It's not impossible but the waters get muddy real quick) Frankly the whirlpool thing is cool as a concept, but you can point to Greek myth and scylla for it. You can argue Element Bending existed before either of those two ideas; so if we let X artist sue Disney for the water portal idea, are the creators of Avatar gonna be able to take both of them to the matress'? IF however, the artist can prove definitively that there are enough similarities between his works on the whole as presented, and they were genuinely done before anything came out in the Moana franchise. Yes. The case would go through, and maybe even in his favor. But it could also drag out for far longer than he could afford to continue it if he doesn't win. Since Disney does have larger coiffers (not nearly as "infinite" as they used to seem, but far larger than one artist) it's very likely they could just arbitrate the whole thing, or argue plausible defense until he gives in not to bleed out for money. Do note: I'm not saying they didn't steal it. I am saying they can and very likely will make it very difficult for him to prove that they did.

The future of comics is the RippaVerse

Disney could take him out and not get sued if he had a Disney plus account.

I this the sort of thing Disney would do? Absolutely. Did they rip this guy off? I don't know, but my gut says no. 1. This guy, a first-time writer with no credits to his name, presents his screenplay to a third party studio who have a 'first look' deal with Disney. They are interested enough steal his idea, but not enough to just pay him the peanuts it would cost to own the rights? 2. They then sit on this great idea for a decade, before reworking it completely from the ground up. 3. The proof? Almost every 'similarity' he describes is derived from the source culture that they are both referencing, fishhook necklaces (makau), demigods, tattoos, turtles, spirit animals. Oh, and the protagonists are both teenagers with disapproving parents (almost all Disney protagonists are). 4. This guy is keeping his own material hidden that he claims is being infringed. If you'd genuinely been wronged, wouldn't you want to let everyone see, get a ton of public support behind you? Or maybe you're worried that people will see how tangential the similarity is, and loose support. The only things he might be able to argue is the 'giant creature hidden in the mountain'/'Te Ka' similarity. My current opinion is that they made Moana, he saw the slight similarities and figured it would be an easy payday. I'm open to be convinced otherwise, especially once he show his hand.

Star Trek Discovery lawsuit all over again...

7:10 A Bug's Life is a way better movie. Z (the protagonist from Antz) is unlikable, narcissistic and moapie (he comes across like a Hollywood actor 🤣). A Bug's Life is great

At this point it's no surprise that Disney would pull Any of this shit!

Thank you for the video, have a great day.

I belive this is the same exact thing that happened with zootopia. Same exact scenario. However from my understanding this is VERY difficult to pursue from a copyright standpoint as ideas and concepts are not protected under law, just the implementation of these.

katzenberg got 250m from Disney in 1999

It's so weird that at the end of shiny he says I hope you like this song

Yes

I was willing to listen until you brought up Kimba, the White Lion. NO ONE who has watched more than a handful of episodes of Kimba from before the Lion King came out would make the claim that Disney poached the story.

Disney? Stealing from someone else? Nooooo. *Hides Kimba the White Lion, Doc Hollywood, and The Thief and the Cobbler behind back* Disney would NEVER lie, cheat, or steal. They're family friendly! *...also hides Disney's vault of character porn and their awful labor practices to employees* Disney are totallly the good guys. But yeah, this isn't anything new. Hollywood in general is pretty known for cases like this. More than likely Disney will pay them off and sweet it under the rug

Kevin costner waterworld was about finding a mythical island

1:33 i havent seen the movie nor have i seen the trailers (i tend to avoid cutsie shit), so imma take you on your word.

Looking through the comments and its insane how many people still bought the "lion king stole from kimba" theorie which was debunked greatly especially by YMS in his 2hour youtube video. Also lion king is basically hamlets with African animals

I would love a KOTOR movie trilogy. Sadly, I just don't trust Disney to get it right. They would have to hire fans of the material and try to stick close to what already there which sounds like that's too restricted. Which is a lame accuse.

When you're as rich and powerful as Disney you don't need to create anything! you just buy or steal it then profit off it! Capitalism!

Aladdin, Snow White, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, etc...they're all stolen/plagiarized works. Disney doesn't make, they copy.

Release the script in the trailer publicly and we'll know for sure

The question is how close are both to actual polinesean story.

Don't compare Kimba to the Lionking, themes are utterly different.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea had a whirlpool... Moana is based on ancient public domain stories.

250mil? You mean Disney pocket change?

I Wish the majority had enough brains and will power and selflessness to revolt against evil. If everyone stopped bying disney garbage the company would go under, yet here it is. Year afternyear of bs. Same with magic the gathering. No balls, people are dumb and weak and sheep

It's a systemic problem: Authors presenting their work to have it greenlit and thereby giving it away for theft risk if not accepted.

I guess we'll just have to see what happens.

Disney's lawyer team defense: "Ooooops?"

Why is disney allowed to delay court?

The only company more litigious and protective of their IPs is Nintendo.

My dude, you should watch YMS' 2+ hours detailed explanation of how The Lion King is NOT a kimba ripoff, they literally have nothing in common other than a couple very trope-y details.

Just Some Guy plagiarized my idea of being nobody important.

The kimba thing is super debunked tho yms made a multi hour vid on it

Winx Club managed to beat the mouse when Disney tried suing them for copyright infringement with W.I.T.C.H. Which was released as a comic in 2001 whereas Winx Club was released in 2004. Winx Club won when they revealed to Disney their early concerts dating back from 1998-99. Since then Rai who made Winx Club became distrustful towards Disney, whereas the creators of W.I.T.C.H. Wanting to strike on their own, tried to sue Disney for the rights and failed, and W.I.T.C.H. Is history. End of story.

The Kimba thing is 99% bullshit. Watch the YMS video! Most of the "similarities" were from Kimba movies and series that came out after Lion King had run. And yeah, Simba was "white" in an early concept art that was black and white.^^

I hate everything made a huge video debunking the Lion King/Kimba claims. The main ones being that in Kimba the scarred lion isn't the main villain, the hyenas are villains even when Claw isn't present (also hyenas are the natural enemy of lions), and Paulie and Zambu are nothing alike in terms of personality.

Okay not the first time this happen but....just one little bit of an issue................................did the person who claim this.........was in a coma and wake up NOW?......Moana came out in 2018 and been on streaming since 2020 as pretty much the much watch movie in steaming history.....and NOW is when this person decide to sue Disney? This is pretty much like any lawsue James Cameron ever have gotten that get to no where at the end.......trust me I wish this was true and Disney get his comeuppance but this never happen and this late is kinda sus anyone who have see its creation been rip off only NOW decide enough is enough, nahh, clickbait news.

4:28 - YMS has an excellent video of why Lion King wasn't stolen, sadly it's a long man video and many peoples attention spans can't handle that

It was already axed from the main timeline by Strange New Worlds. It's an alternate timeline where Khan is a little kid in 2022 instead of an adult in 1992.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with Lion King vs Leo. I watched both as a kid and if it was a rip off/copy, I'd love both. There's only so much you can do if you have simple designs and simple story. And if you want a story about a royal family where your uncle kills your father (basically like Hamlet) you're going to use lions if you want to use animals instead of humans because of the simbolism. There are more differences than there are similarities with the humans being the biggest. You could change any animal in the Lion King with a human being and it would still work. In Leo, that doesn't work, because the whole premise of the story is to show interactions between humans and animals (Tezuka drew a Bambi-manga and was disappointed by the movie's lack of interactions with humans; that's what he used for Leo then). Using a lion as a character, on the other hand, isn't necessary and you could change it to any other animal, like for example a deer. The lion cub you've shown in the video also isn't Simba, but Mheetu, who was supposed to be Nala's brother. However, there's another Disney movie that's almost 1:1 to another movie. And... you might have guessed it... I love both :'D I haven't seen anyone talking about that yet, though. Propably because the movie wasn't popular enough. As for Moana, it sounds pretty similar. While individual ideas can't be copyrighted, the combination and execution can, which is why I'd also be very interested in the concept art and the outcome of the lawsuit. You can come up with the same story idea as someone else and have never spoken to that person, but you can definitely see if someone copied/borrowed that idea or not if there are too many coincidences. I see that regularly in the art space, where people copy other artist's art and pretend they came up with it themselves. Or call it "heavily referenced" which is just a euphemism for copying. And as people who worked for Disney have seen the screenplay back then, they could have "heavily referenced" the screenplay. Or it was a case of cryptomnesia... nonetheless, I'm interested in the outcome.

Most of Disney's lifespan has literally seen them copying existing works or taking ideas from others. The amount of original ideas they've had are far smaller than the ideas they have either copied or stolen from others, even when Walt was alive. This is how creatively bankrupt Disney has been for nearly a century. Modern Disney has zero creative bones in it's body, especially given the advent of AI.

Please stop repeating this ridiculous Kimba and Lion King nonsense. Watch Your Movie Sucks' video on it; the "evidence" is shoddy and weak.

IF this is true, I'm not surprised, because big companies does steal a lot from smaller creators, and just bullies them into silence. I truly hope the dude manages to stick into it in the long game

Disney has done it before so it doesn’t surprise me

The Kimba thing was pretty thoroughly disproven by YMS.