/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7130134
The reason that most princess party companies use "Beauty" instead of Belle is that it helps them in lawsuits, not because they absolutely have to. If you have a near-copy of Disney's costume and are using Disney music etc for a party but are calling your character "Beauty," you have a leg to stand on should Disney decide to take action.

True Enchantment, for example, used to have "Belle" and "Tiana," but they were changed to "Beauty" and "Frog Princess" at some point.

Now, if they weren't copying Disney's character and had a fairy tale theme independent of Disney, they would probably feel more comfortable using "Belle" in the same way that fairy tale books sometimes use Belle.

>>7130134
Peter Pan is a tricky beast.

http://www.gosh.org/gen/peterpan/copyright/faq/

Disney was granted license to the animation rights for Peter Pan, but not any copyright to the original story.