Disney plagiarizes once again!!!

Rating: 8/10 (25 July 2009)

Don't get me wrong...I loved the movie, but let's give credit where credit is due. The movie was not without controversy. In 2002, famed artist and designer, Stanley "Mouse" Miller, sued Disney/Pixar claiming they appropriated and infringed upon a script, story and artwork he'd developed in 1997 that involved two stock "monster" characters that he'd developed in the 1960s. Since there were a number of "incriminating" issues, including a Pixar story artist visiting Mouse in 2000 (after describing himself as a fan of the artist and discussing Mouse's work with him at length), story and characters plagiarized directly and unchanged from Stanley Mouse's notebooks and script, and new Intellectual Property laws which require clear delineations between "fair use" and "misappropriation", Pixar was placed at an extreme disadvantage in any ensuing arbitration. Recognizing that they would lose a large portion of their $500 million box-office profits if the case ever went to trial, Disney and Pixar settled out-of-court, with Mr. Mouse winning a large, if undisclosed, sum of money and royalties.