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It seems there are few places like the U.S. where a suing culture is so common.
Suing someone isn’t rare here and suing big companies is very common.
You can’t have liabilities here because they most certainly will be found.
For Disney, this seems to be a daily occurrence.
From everyday average joes to Bill Nye the science guy, people really have a bone to
pick with Disney!
Today we’re looking at the Top 10 Times Disney was sued!
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10.
Chilean Guy Who Won’t “Let It Go” Jaime Ciero, a Chilean singer, sued Disney
for allegedly ripping off "Let It Go" from one of his songs.
He says his song "Volar" bears eerie similarities to the hit that toddlers all around the world
can’t stop singing.
Ciero says that even though his song is in Spanish, the melodies are very alike, down
to the note combinations, the structures, the lyrics, themes, production, and textures.
Now, I don’t know what “textures” are in music, but that guy sounds like he knows
what he’s talking about and we should all go give Volar a few hundred listens.
If Disney won’t pay, make Spotify do it.
Two years after filing, Ciero dropped the suit and both parties agreed to pay their
own attorney fees.
9.
Palace Pets Goes Rogue Disney Princess Palace Pets, an app for children
got slapped with a class-action lawsuit for “invading the privacy of children”.
That’s some big talk!
Amanda Rushing, a mother from San Francisco, is suing the Disney Company and other software
companies claiming she never gave parental consent about the app collecting the data
of her young daughter.
The lawsuit claims that the app is among 40 others gathering data on activities on the
same device and selling the information to advertisers.
Since there is no parental consent involved, this is actually a big problem, according
to plaintiffs who say it violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Disney, of course, disagrees.
The suit was filed in 2017, and the case is still ongoing.
8.
Frozen in South Korea South Korean Disney was sued recently for
Frozen 2.
Just goes to show, you can’t go internationally famous without getting internationally sued.
This time, The Public Welfare Committee filed a complaint with Seoul Central District Prosecutors
saying Korean Disney was violating monopoly laws in the domestic film market.
Why?
According to the complaint, two days after its release, it was in 88% of theatres in
the country, and being shown 16,220 times per day.
Since, they say, Frozen 2 was way above the 50% of the market mark, it was in clear violation.
It’s unclear what happened next, but knowing Disney, it either “went away quietly”
or it’s still in legal processes and bureaucracy.
7.
Frozen 2 Strikes again A Nevada-based company is suing Disney for
using the motto “Trust your journey” as part of their marketing materials for Frozen
2.
According to them, they have had the name much longer, using it, inspired by its founder,
a cancer survivor, and young widowed mother who used the motto to cope with her struggles
and thrive.
She uses the motto to inspire others suffering from or surviving cancer.
What do you think?
A lawsuit with legs?
Or a way to cash in on the $240.9 million Frozen 2 made on its first day alone?
6.
Marsupilami Oh, plagiarism.
So many big companies are accused of it.
Hey, I’m not saying those complaining are right, but I’m also not saying they’re
not.
This time, Disney was in a long relationship with their opponent.
A French cartoon popular in Europe, Marsupilami was, according to Disney, the character that
would bring the energy and cuteness they needed.
Unfortunately, other things started happening around the same time they signed a contract.
They were having hit after hit and Marsupilami was looking dull in contrast.
They pushed him aside.
But Marsupilami had lawyers.
The promises Disney had made had not come to fruition and they had legitimate reasons
to sue.
Among those promises: a 13-episode animated series, and licensing of the character to
get him everywhere, among other things.
In the end, Marsu received close to $10M for not fulfilling the contract on every point.
5.
Inside Out Gets Sued It was a child development expert this time
who took a swing at Disney for their movie Inside Out.
Her idea was to explore children’s emotions through characters who all represented a respective
feeling or mood.
Her name is Denise Daniels and her idea was called “The Moodsters”.
Get this, she actually says she pitched the idea to Disney Pixar several times between
2005 and 2009.
However, her complaint falls short when it says that there was an “implied-in-fact”
contract.
So a non-contract non-verbal agreement said she’d receive money if and when Disney decided
to use her idea.
She’s not the first to say a screenplay idea was mysteriously on-screen without permission
or notice.
Zootopia has also been called out.
It’s still up in the air what will happen with this particular lawsuit, but I’m rooting
for the David in this David and Goliath tale.
4.
Disney Stole My Autobiography!
A Peruvian author claimed in 2014 that Frozen was a plagiarized version of her autobiography
called "Yearnings of the Heart".
The author sued for $328.3M and says there are 18 ways the movie plagiarizes her own
story.
Disney, on the other hand, says they took inspiration from a Hans Christian Andersen
fairy tale, where a lot of their stories are from.
Since he’s long gone, they know he’s not coming after them for hundreds of millions
of dollars.
I have to say, unless you have magical freezing powers, an amazing sister, and live where
there’s actual ice, this is not the most believable suit.
If you know more details, feel free to convince me in the comments.
3.
Bill Nye Sues Disney Throwing it back to 2017, Bill Nye sued Disney
saying that he and the co-creators of Bill Nye the Science Guy had not been paid the
amount promised, 50% in profits.
After a lengthy struggle to access the show's financial records, an auditor eventually priced
Disney's under-reporting at $28.1 million, which is what the suit is for, but of that
amount, Nye claims that Disney owes him $9.4 million.
The case was set to head to trial in May of 2020, but with the coronavirus outbreak, it's
most likely going to get pushed back for a few.
2.
Pirates of the Caribbean Whether you pronounce it Cari-bee-an or CaRIbbean,
you’ll certainly recognize this Disney favorite.
It was the Game of Thrones theme song before there was a Game of Thrones theme song.
What you might not know is that it was the target of a lawsuit that claimed that the
concept, the characters, and even part of the dialogue was stolen.
The complaint says Disney producers expressed interest in the writers’ script called Red
Hood.
Their lawyer submitted the script on their behalf.
It was bought but later scrapped and not produced.
Their script bears an extremely close resemblance to Pirates, and it seems their material continues
to come up with every new movie of the franchise.
Fearful that they’d kill their writing careers by suing Disney, they waited until they retired
from the industry to pursue it.
What happened after is unclear but if you know more, drop it in the comments.
1.
Dude, That’s My Van!
Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed are three familiar names that most of us would recognize, that
is, if you've watched Disney’s The Lion King.
Although it’s a beloved family classic, The Lion King was met with lots of controversy
upon its release.
One bigger complaint came from a hyena biologist who actually sued Disney for defamation of
character, saying that the film’s representation and perception of the animals were far from
reality.
Another hyena expert, who facilitated the animators' research trip to study animal behavior,
encouraged viewers to boycott the film.
In the end, there isn't much of a follow-up story to be found on the internet, so we're
guessing the case was either dropped or dismissed.
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