Mandeville-Anthony v. Walt Disney Co.

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rdf:langString Jake Mandeville-Anthony v. The Walt Disney Company

rdf:langString Mandeville-Anthony v. The Walt Disney Company

rdf:langString Mandeville-Anthony v. The Walt Disney Company, 11-56441 (9th Cir. 2012), is a United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit case in which the Court evaluated whether defendants Pixar, The Walt Disney Company, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Walt Disney Pictures infringed on Jake Mandeville-Anthony's copyrighted works. Plaintiff Mandeville-Anthony's claim for copyright infringement was first dismissed by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, because the court found that the parties’ works were not substantially similar. Mandeville-Anthony made copyright infringement claims with regards to his works Cookie & Co. and Cars/Auto-Excess/Cars Chaos, an animated television show and movie, that he believed Disney copied in order to make their own films, Cars and Cars 2, both of which were very successful, and the animated television show Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales. He also made breach of contract claims stating that he and Disney signed a contract barring Disney from using the ideas contained in his works. The decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

rdf:langString The appellate court affirmed the district court's opinion that The Walt Disney Company's films Cars, Cars 2 and CARS Toon do not infringe on copyrighted works of Jake Mandeville-Anthony because they are not substantially similar as a matter of law.