This new decision is Pourshian’s successful appeal of that decision.
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Disney, Pixar and Netflix are teaching your children the wrong messages about painĭisney initially pleaded that only Disney Shopping had ever directly done business in Ontario, and said Ontario has no jurisdiction over the others.Ī 2019 ruling found Ontario did in fact have jurisdiction over Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures, which produced the movie partly to offer it for viewing to Ontario moviegoers, and also Disney Shopping, but not the others.
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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Pourshian’s lawsuit initially named the Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Disney Enterprises, Disney Shopping, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and American Broadcasting Company, which distributes Pixar films on television. Much of the legal argument turns on whether the business has a strong connection to the province in question. It is not always straightforward suing a foreign business in a Canadian court. “It is clear that the Infringing Work (the Pixar movie) reproduces the inventive and central concept at the heart of the Original Works: the behavior and actions of the main “external” character, a school-age child, are controlled by five “internal” characters who work together and struggle against one another to help the external character navigate his or her daily life,” reads the statement of claim. His legal documents include a chart making the case that Pixar’s Joy character is based on Pourshian’s Heart, as both are upbeat and sentimental Brain and Fear are both tightly wound nerdy male characters prone to panic Stomach and Anger are irritable, impulsive and self-centred Colon and Disgust protect the protagonist’s health, and Bladder and Sadness both feel ignored and of diminished importance, and “large eyewear that obscures their faces.” For Sadness it is glasses, for Bladder a scuba mask. These similarities “extend from the title, to overarching themes, to minute and specific details - none of which can be the result of coincidence,” reads Pourshian’s statement of claim. Photo by Damon Pourshian / Disney / Court documents Both films have breakfast scenes featuring yellow cereal boxes. His claim describes similarities in the plot, even down to minor details like eating cereal from a yellow carton, a teacher asking a question that puts the protagonist on the spot, eating lunch alone, and getting a kiss from mother at night.īoth movies even include a mock commercial that highlights advertising’s power over this five-person control room. Article contentĪ similar lawsuit in California was voluntarily dismissed in 2018, two months after it was filed at the same time as the Ontario one, according to court records there.