Roe deer deer Bambi (the titular character of the book "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" (1923) and its sequel "Bambi's Children" (1939), by Felix Salten) is originally a roe deer. When the story was adapted into the animated feature film "Bambi" (1942), by the Walt Disney Studios, Bambi was changed to a mule deer, and accordingly, the setting was changed to a North American wilderness. These changes made Bambi a deer species more familiar to mainstream US viewers. Roe deer The European roe deer ("Capreolus capreolus"), also known as the western roe deer, "chevreuil", or simply roe deer or roe, is
Mandeville-Anthony v. Walt Disney Co. Mandeville-Anthony v. Walt Disney Co. Mandeville-Anthony v. The Walt Disney Company, 11-56441 (9th Cir. 2012), is a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case in which the Court evaluated whether defendants Pixar, The Walt Disney Company, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Walt Disney Pictures infringed on Jake Mandeville-Anthony's copyrighted works. Plaintiff Mandeville-Anthony's claim for copyright infringement was first dismissed by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, because the court found that the parties’ works were not substantially similar. Mandeville-Anthony made copyright infringement claims with regards to his works "Cookie & Co." and "Cars/Auto-Excess/Cars