The whole "Day of the Dead"/"Coco" issue sounds like a replay of the 1966 "Simba/Kimba" issue. According to Fred Ladd, NBC was going to rename Osamu Tezuka's Leo ('Jungle Emperor") as Simba and "Simba the White Lion", but learned at the last minute that it couldn't copyright Simba because it's a common word in Swahili (for lion). So NBC changed Simba to Kimba to make it unique and copyrightable. Supposedly Disney withdrew the "Day of the Dead" title because of protests from the Mexican community, but is that true, or did Disney get its copyright application turned down because "Day of the Dead" was already a well-known term?
The whole "Day of the Dead"/"Coco" issue sounds like a replay of the 1966 "Simba/Kimba" issue. According to Fred Ladd, NBC was going to rename Osamu Tezuka's Leo ('Jungle Emperor") as Simba and "Simba the White Lion", but learned at the last minute that it couldn't copyright Simba because it's a common word in Swahili (for lion). So NBC changed Simba to Kimba to make it unique and copyrightable. Supposedly Disney withdrew the "Day of the Dead" title because of protests from the Mexican community, but is that true, or did Disney get its copyright application turned down because "Day of the Dead" was already a well-known term?
Fred Patten