Disney lawsuit
In 2003, Le Calvez filed lawsuit, suit against Pixar and its distribution company Walt Disney Pictures, claiming that the story and the characters from this book were plagiarism, plagiarized in the film ''Finding Nemo''. The author and his lawyer, Pascal Kamina, demanded from Disney a share of the profits from merchandising articles sold in France. Le Calvez and Kamina lost the lawsuit on 12 March 2004 and intended to file an appeal on 5 October 2004; however, to date there has been no further action taken against Pixar on the matter. On 15 April 2021, MatPat, The Film Theorists made a YouTube video believing that it was actually Le Calvez who had copied Disney. The book had been published roughly one year before the film's release, but as pointed out in the video, advertising for the film was already present by then and production on animated movies takes years, making it highly unlikely that Disney or Pixar had taken anything from Le Calvez.References
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* * 2002 children's books Books involved in plagiarism controversies Fictional fish French children's books French picture books {{child-picture-book-stub