Party princess

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Belle and Rapunzel party princesses

A party princess is a person who entertains children at birthday parties, often dressed as different Disney characters especially those from the Disney Princess franchise. [1] [2] The most common party princess costumes are Elsa, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Aurora, Belle, and Ariel. These types of princess character entertainers are usually hired through children's birthday party entertainment planners. Party princesses generally perform at private birthday parties for young girls: they sing, dance, and play with kids as well as mingle with other guests, all the while maintaining a party theme based on the character they are dressed up as. [3] [4] [5]

Party princesses often resemble the princesses from animated Disney movies. The appearances are Disney's intellectual property, as distinct portrayals that fall under copyright (even if they originated in public domain fairy tales). Disney filed a lawsuit against a company in New York for unauthorized use of Star Wars characters. [6] [7] The federal court in New York refused to grant Disney summary judgement, and noted that the costumed character company's website referred to Princess Leia and Chewbacca as "The Princess" and "Big Hairy Guy". [8] [9] The judge ruled that there was no visible attempt at confusing customers about whether the company misrepresented Disney.

References

  1. ↑ "Confessions Of A Professional Disney Princess". HuffPost. January 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Meet The Real (Fake) Disney Princesses Of New York". HuffPost. July 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Gillett, Rachel. "What it's REALLY like to be a part-time 'princess'". Business Insider.
  4. ↑ For Professional Princesses, Birthday Party Gigs Are a Big Business
  5. ↑ "Party princesses change with the times - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  6. ↑ Gardner, Eriq (2018-08-13). "Disney Finds It's Not So Easy to Sue Over Knockoff Characters at Birthday Parties". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  7. ↑ Geigner, Timothy (2017-10-18). "Disney: The Only Fun Allowed At Children's Birthday Parties Is Properly Licensed Fun". Techdirt. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  8. ↑ Burwick, Kevin (2018-08-13). "Disney Just Can't Win Against Birthday Party Rip-Off Characters". MovieWeb. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  9. ↑ Snow Princess Parties
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