And, along with this, you have to be able to show that the writer(s) had access to this information while writing the script. To give you an hour long media analysis video to watch, here’s some Lindsay Ellis:
The summary of it was that animators saw The Thief and the Cobbler and might have used some of what they saw as inspiration for some of the character design in Aladdin, but the writer of Aladdin didn’t have access to the movie so Disney could credibly say they didn’t steal the script.
And, along with this, you have to be able to show that the writer(s) had access to this information while writing the script. To give you an hour long media analysis video to watch, here’s some Lindsay Ellis:
https://youtu.be/44chgavSaKA
The summary of it was that animators saw The Thief and the Cobbler and might have used some of what they saw as inspiration for some of the character design in Aladdin, but the writer of Aladdin didn’t have access to the movie so Disney could credibly say they didn’t steal the script.