Canada's Supreme Court Finds Cinar Guilty of Copyright Infringement

The fallen Canadian animation giant and partners are ordered to pay punitive damages to Claude Robinson for stealing the character for a Robinson Crusoe-inspired cartoon. TORONTO - A near-two decade legal fight by Montreal animator Claude Robinson against Cinar Corp., Canada’s high-riding animation producer that was felled during the late 1990s by a series of corporate scandals, has ended in the Supreme Court of Canada. The country's highest court has ruled that Cinar infringed on the copyrigh...