Disney is getting sued over Zootopia

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As popular as most people's favorite animation company Disney is, it's been no stranger to controversy, and in the past has actually been sued by other artists for allegedly ripping off their work. Many of you have probably heard the "The Lion King is a ripoff of Kimba the White Lion" story before or some variation of it, and I remember a story involving Frozen being accused of being a ripoff of some short film nobody ever saw (simply because both had a snowman in it :facepalm:). Currently there are two controversies involving recent Disney works, one being how Pixar's upcoming film "Coco" is an alleged rip-off of the animated film "The Book of Life", which has been going rounds on Tumblr lately, but that's a topic for another time.

In this case, we're talking about Zootopia (or "Zootropolis" as it's called in Europe) and how it's allegedly a rip-off of a story by writer Gary L. Goldman, who is known for a bunch of sci-fi stories like "Total Recall" and "Next". His story is ALSO called "Zootopia" and also involves a setting with anthro animals.

Honestly, this is reminding me of that time someone tried to sue Dreamworks by claiming that they ripped off his work with Kung-Fu Panda, only for it to backfire when it was discovered that he was simply doing it as a get rich quick scheme... and was convicted of fraud, unsurprisingly. Yeah, this isn't going to end very well for him, after all, this is nothing new, especially with popular works.
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Star-Butterfly's avatar
Oh no....
"Original" thing is gonna become "exhaustion" and then starting unintended ripoff...

This is a REAL news.