Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
Yep, Disney showed up at their doorstep and gave them a ton of money so they wouldn’t be offended and they were like yup, this works. And from that point forward if anyone dare reference them in any way they better pay up.

This is a perfect example of actions doing more harm than good. No one should have contacted them, and they should have no reason to protest unless someone was being intentionally disrespectful to them. Which as far as I can see is not happening.

Hopefully it doesn’t go to courts because if it does all Disney succeeded in doing was creating a law suit mill with their misguided woke agenda. Money isn’t even the best thing you can do for cultures, it’s more about being respectful about how they are presented. But I bet the greedy politicians would disagree of course. Even those on the Sami council. Those seem remarkably similar across all cultures and locations.
From the research I did, they'd have trouble bringing a lawsuit. I see "cultural IP" as something being discussed but I don't see any law or agreements Japan or other countries agreed to abide by. For example, Black Panther was sued for some of the attire used in the film, due to that attire being illegal to use without permission in that country. However, there are no laws binding the US or other countries that they are bound to through any international agreements, so I don't think that lawsuit prevailed.

It's probably why they went to twitter instead of a court.