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Re:Did Disney's The Lion King Rip Off an Old Japanese TV Ser... by Spooky23 on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:52AM (#9237681)
No more than Star Wars ripped off "The Hidden Fortress" and "Midway". Art riffs off other art. In the Star Wars sense, there were a lot of parallels to the other works, but it was and is still an original creation.
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Re:Did Disney's The Lion King Rip Off an Old Japanese TV Ser... by pyre on Friday March 20, 2015 @12:56PM (#9238801)
I get that art riffs off other art, but the actions of Disney are what upset people. In cases like this, they will "take" from others without giving anything in return, but if someone gets too close to their "intellectual property" they pull out the big guns and attempt to erase that person from existence.
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