EDIT: They're gone for good ;(

Last chance everyone! Time is up but the games are still available but for how long?
Direct links still work, search/filter results came up empty:
Disney The Lion King
Disney Aladdin

Below game remains unaffected for now:
Disney The Jungle Book (this game is under risk of removal)

Did the games get removed early? while the pages lasted longer, I couldn't get the game to stay in the cart, before the stated end time.

The games were removed from GOG catalog right on time. Direct links were wiped out after about 10 mins. I hope you're not a Disney controller.

2 new abandonware games just got released ;)

well, im not a us attorney either, and i dont know how relevent this example will be but ill try

four years ago for instance a land owner (not a single person but a firm) was approached by a property developer who said "we want to build a strip mall on your property. you'll get x-percentage rent, commercial zoning tax write-offs, plus 8.5 million upfront."

the land owner agreed, contracts were drafted by their respective lawyers and signed by both parties. the development company hires a construction company (the one i work for) to break ground on the project in roughly 2-months.

in just under two months, construction begins and in 3 months is nearing completion. the stores, who have their rental leases and advertisement contracts...

you know what, because i could type pages of that drama i'll just say this instead. the retail outlets that had signed with the development firm to lease storefronts in the new strip-mall started advertising and hanging signage before construction was complete and apparently before any hard cash -- the upfront 8.5 mill, had been exchanged (apparently things like this actually need to be in writing - i had no idea). the land owner sued not only the retail outlets but sued the construction company for breach of contract. in some states advertising with the intent to profit is apparently the same as actually making money. the land owner actually won. that strip-mall as of today stands empty, and is structurally maintained by laterra.

anyway, not really the same, but when ever gog removes something im always reminded of this situation, largely due to the fact that we, as end users don't really know anything about the contracts gog signs with developers and publishers.

The case your provided is not news for me, advertisement is a no go unless agreed on. Advertisement is a curious thing, sometimes one have to exactly follow all the little details on how to promote this or that feature/thing.
I still think that informing client base about games removal can be a bit more informative (NEWS) without breaching a contract. Otherwise current thread would be impossible.

The Jungle Book (2016) - 15 April 2016 (USA)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3040964/

Aladdin (2019) - 24 May 2019 (USA)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6139732/

The Lion King (2019) - 19 July 2019 (USA)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6105098/

Jungle Book 2 - to be announced
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5626032/

One theory is that the games were pulled out because of conflicting licensing IP rights to movies. The other theory is that Disney have to reach out original developers (producers) from Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Virgin Games, Eurocom, Westwood Studios). Time will tell, I hope we'll see the games back again in GOG.

Please note that Jungle Book was delisted in Steam but still available here.
Alladin movie was launched about a month ago, the same period the game was pulled out from Steam.
The Lion King is set for launch this month, but the game was delisted a bit earlier than Alladin and Jungle Book from various bundle offers.

What confusion? One is live action and one isn't....also the games came out YEARS ago and one could see that if they read the store pages. :\

To me this is just disney being disney and trying to bypass/increase copyright terms unfairly to shut their stuff out from the public commons as long as legally possible.

Didn't that post get some guy fired?

Yeah people will flock to the various sites now, and disney will lose out on those potential sales.

That land owner sounds like a d*ck to let that mall sit there with no tenants or being used like that, or to cause it to be such.

it was a property management firm that is/was the land owner. an organization of bipedal penii.

I would say seeing as its already been delisted on Steam there's a very strong possibility.

People like that, that only care about themselves and not others, irks me to no end....it's like being an adult and taking your ball and walking off if someone says/does something you dislike.

I found this thread too late. But they are already in my library anyway! ;-)

Don't understand much about real estate do you?
I always love these people who are eager to grab other people's property..intellectual of otherwise.

No one is eager to grab anyone's property....they(the store owners) put up some ads for their stores in/for the mall that was being built and the land owner threw a fit over it, causing those stores to never open and the mall to sit unused because of "reasons".

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Also fwiw I believe MOST IP should revert to the commons after 10-15 years max.....people and companies don't need t make massive sums over entire lifetimes because "muh capitalism" is better than the betterment of humanity through enrichment of common culture.