Time Travel Troubles: A Tale of Two Tales The Queensland Court of Appeal has dismissed an author's appeal against Disney's use of plot elements from her novella, bringing to a close the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of intellectual property disputes.
Daria Gomez Gane claimed that the 2023 Indiana Jones film infringed on her copyright, alleging that Disney had borrowed 13 original elements from her 2021 work, The Michelangelo Dilemma: Secrets of Renaissance Time Travellers.
Gane's case rested on the notion that Disney's use of a circular dial for time travel in the film was identical to the concept of an octagonal tile inscribed with a formula used by Leonardo da Vinci in her book.