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So recently there's been A LOT of news about Disney being sued for "copying ideas for Zootopia"

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/disney-sued-over-zootopia

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/disney-sued-for-allegedly-stealing-oscarwinning-zootopia-20170322-gv4bqx.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/21/gary-goldman-screenwriter-sues-disney-over-zootopi/

(There's way more than just this)

 

Now this isn't the first time Disney is being accused of stealing, but all this talk right now about taking ideas from a pitch reminds me of Louis Castle talking about how Battlefield came about:

Just some trivia about the idea for Battlefield. Except Westwood has been shut down so there's no way in hell there's any chance of them trying to sue DICE.

 

But if Westwood was still around, would they even get so worked up about the possibility of their pitch ideas getting copied?

I don't want to start an argument, but I really wanted to let people know that there is a possibility that one of the biggest FPS franchises was actually created by 'stealing' an idea from Westwood, but yet DICE isn't getting sued for "copying the creators of C&C"

So why is a writer getting so worked up about a friggin furry film (I know it's "so much more than that") that just has some similarities to his work?

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