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Plagiarism punished in Canada

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Claude Robinson began a $2.53-million Quebec Superior Court copyright infringement lawsuit against Cinar and other defendants in July 1996 asserting they stole a cartoon character he created, and won a judgment of $5.2-million in August 2009, 13 years later.

The character involved was "Robinson Curiosité".

Full post as published by IPBiz on August 26, 2009 (boomark / email).