Friday, December 1, 2006

BL3: CUFADM02A Posting: “Finding Nemo”

QUESTION 1: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

QUESTION 2: 8 posts

QUESTION 3:
News - Disney sued in France over Nemo 24 Dec 2003
News - Finding Nemo case delayed 29 Jan 2004
News - Finding Nemo 'copy' case begins 24 Feb 2004
Newsround - Frenchman claims he invented Nemo 25 Feb 2004
News - French author loses Nemo battle 12 Mar 2004
Newsround - Writer loses court claim for Nemo 13 Mar 2004
News - Frenchman loses Nemo copy claim 20 Apr 2005
Newsround - Children's author loses Nemo case 21 Apr 2005

QUESTION 4:
Mr Le Calvez claims that Disney is in breach of copyright for his registered Pierrot the Clown Fish and that they stole his idea and character and wants disney to be banned from selling Nemo books and toysin France. He says the popularity of Nemo is stopping people from buying his stuff. however in court the judge ruled that although the two characters resembled each other they did not have enough similarities. e Calvez was ordered to pay a total of 38,000 euros in damages to Disney and Pixar Animation.

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