Shanghai: Disney has won a copyright dispute over a Chinese knock-off of its animated movie Cars, a China court said yesterday, a rare victory for a foreign firm in a country famous for counterfeits. Bluemtv, which makes the Chinese cartoon The Autobots, and the film's publisher have been ordered to stop their infringement of Disney's copyrights, the Shanghai High People's Court said in a statement posted on the Twitter-like Weibo.
The court also ordered the Chinese side to pay 1.35m yuan ($194,600) to Disney including compensation and legal fees, a microscopic sum for a company that opened a $5.5bn theme park in Shanghai in June. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney in 2006, the US film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
