The previous uproar over the domestic animation "Cars" plagiarizing the Disney animated film "Cars" is still fresh in everyone's memory. In the end, Disney sued the producers of "Cars" to court. The Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court made a first-instance judgment on the case, requiring all defendants to immediately stop copyright infringement and unfair competition. The producer of "Cars", Xiamen Blue Flame Company, compensated the plaintiff for losses of 1 million yuan. Recently, CCTV also specially produced a special program on the trial of the "Cars" infringement case, reviewing the infringement case between Disney's "Cars" and "Cars", and exposing the trial process.
Click to watch CCTV's "Cars" copyright infringement trial
During the trial, the defendant has been arguing that his animated image was created independently, borrowing the style of real racing cars, and is not substantially similar to the plaintiff's animated image in the film. In addition, the defendant has always claimed that "Cars" is a domestic film and will not cause public misunderstanding. After deducting taxes, theater shares, publicity and distribution costs and other expenses from the box office revenue of the film in question, the defendant did not make any profit. In short, he did not admit that he had plagiarized, but the finished product was there and everyone knew whether it was plagiarized or not.
In fact, CCTV is doing this to remind current producers to pay attention to the issue of infringement. Nowadays, there are still many works suspected of infringement, many of which are blatant and even suspected to be deliberately done for hype. In addition, the cost of infringement in my country is still very low. We still hope that such cases can promote intellectual property protection and enhance the awareness of practitioners and audiences.
