JWeinCom said:
I actually think that something being wildly different from the material it allegedly is copying would actually invalidate the claim that there was copyright infringement. Even if the Lion King was inspired by Kimba (which I don't see much reason to believe) that's not copyright infringement if the end product is completely different. Fifty Shades of Grey was inspired by Twilight and in fact did use Twilight as its basis(started out as a fanfiction) but the end product is nothing like it, so there's no infringement. Kimba itself was inspired by Bambi (as was the Lion King), but the end product is nothing like Bambi, so there's no copyright infringement. What element did the Lion King take from Kimba that would be so specific that it would amount to copyright infringement? |
I'm too lazy to look it up but i can assume that a company as Disney knows how to avoid doing any copyright infringement and if it happened i could assume they would have already payed for it.
