The Copyright Adventures Of Robinson Curiosite

The Supreme Court of Canada ("the Court") issued its eagerly awaited decision in Cinar v Robinson on December 23, 2013. Robinson alleged various production companies, their directors and officers, and individual producers ("the Defendants") infringed his copyright in an undeveloped children's television series, Les Aventures de Robinson Curiosite, ("Curiosite"), by producing and broadcasting a similar children's television show, Robinson Sucroe ("Sucroe"). The Court unanimously upheld the lower Quebec Superior Court's findings that Sucroe infringed Curiosity, but maintained in part the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal that reduced the damages granted by the lower Court, to roughly $4 million in remedies and costs instead of the original $5.2 million.