By Staff Writer (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Apr 17, 2015 12:11 AM EDT

Did Disney borrow ideas for its 2013 hit animated feature "Frozen"?

Considering that the movie is based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale "The Snow Queen," the answer is "yes."

However, a Kuwaiti author had claimed that the studio also culled some parts of its plot from a book she released, Time reported.

"Muneefa Abdullah says the popular Disney movie took plot points from her story 'The Snow Princess,' which appeared in her book 'New Fairy Tales' in 2007," the news source relayed. "The suit names Disney as well as the screenwriter and co-director, Jennifer Lee."

According to the Detroit Free Press, the lawsuit cited a number of similarities between the film and her story, such as the fact that there's "a princess possessing magical ice powers who eventually goes into hiding," a "kingdom made of ice and surrounded by mountains," a "sibling in search and rescue of the sibling with the magic ice powers," and a "journey up a mountain with snowy guards protecting an icy castle on the mountaintop."

It would also seem that some of these elements are present in the Andersen fairytale, which was written in the mid-19th century.

When asked about this, intellectual property lawyer E. Leonard Rubin was quoted by the news agency as saying that one "can't protect an idea."

"If you could protect an idea, all of the movies in the 1960s that had the boy-loses-girl-boy-wins-girl plot would all be infringing," he added.

He also went on to point out that the film has been out for more than a year, questioning the timing of the author's lawsuit.

"If you want an injunction for somebody to stop doing something, you can only get it if it harms. If it harms you and you wait and wait and wait, the judge is likely going to say, 'Obviously, this isn't harming you that much,'" he opined.

Interestingly, this isn't the first time Disney has been sued for plagiarism in relation to "Frozen." Last year, author Isabella Tanikumi filed a lawsuit against the Mouse House claiming that the hit film is based on her autobiography, which was published in 2010.

"Tanikumi's three page complaint insists that 'Frozen' stole the story, characters and general feeling from her work and demands a jury trial," The Independent said. "She lists 18 examples of what she claims to be plagiarism from characters' names to the animated film's central sisterly relationship."

However, Disney apparently turned a cold shoulder to the lawsuit, with a representative reportedly responding last year, through e-mail, that the suit is "beyond ridiculous, she needs to let it go," CNN Money said.

Will Disney give this recent suit the same chilly response? We'll find out soon enough.

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