Chinese film studio sued by Disney after they copied animated movie ‘Cars’

Culture&Arts Nilgun Salim
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Blue MTV, the Chinese film studio that produced the incriminating animated movie entitled “Autobots” are forced by law “to stop any crime at the rights owned by Disney’,  announced the High Court in Shanghai on a social network.

The High Court ordered the Chinese company to pay up 1.35 million yuan (186,000 euros) in damages to Disney and to support the court fees.

The amount is insignificant for the Californian entertainment giant, which recently inaugurated in Shanghai a new Disneyland amusement park. The project required an investment of 5.5 billion dollars.

Produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Disney in 2006, the movie “Cars” won the Golden Globe for best-animated film and the appreciation of all critics.

Shanghai Court acknowledged that “Autobots”, released last year on the big screens in China includes a series of disturbing similarities with the American feature film.

In the Chinese production, you can encounter the same characters from the “Cars” franchise. The most eloquent example is the red car Flash McQueen or Italian Formula 1racer Francesco Bernoulli.

In addition, the posters of both films look like two drops of water and the name “Autobots” in Chinese sounds like the Mandarin translation of the title “Cars”. This represents an “illegal competition”.

Counterfeits and imitations remain a common practice in China and the Beijing Government is constantly accused of such illegalities.