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Copyright Fight: Hollywood versus a Film School Project

By Richard Stobbe

By Richard Stobbe In the interesting case of Pourshian v. Walt Disney Company, 2019 ONSC 5916 (CanLII), plaintiff Mr. Pourshian says that in 1998, while in high school, he conceived the idea of a film in which a character’s internal organs (Heart, Stomach, Colon, Bladder and Brain), were portrayed as personified characters.  In 2000, while a film school student in Ontario, he wrote a screenplay and produced a short film called Inside Out based on this idea.  He is now a director and cinema read more

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on December 16, 2019 (boomark / email).