"Cars" Lawsuit Dismissed

A UK screenwriter who filed a lawsuit against Disney claiming "Cars" and Cars 2" were copies of his original work will not get anything out of it. A judge has thrown out the lawsuit.

In March, Jake Mandeville-Anthony sued claiming the Pixar films infringed the copyright on a three-part screenplay titled "Cookie & Co.," about the true-life adventure race-car driver Michael Owen Perkins, who won a 1988 race, and a second work titled "Cars," which included a treatment, sample screenplay, 46 animated car character descriptions, 10 cars character sketches, and a marketing and merchandising plan.

But in a short summary judgment issued on Thursday, California federal judge Valerie Baker Fairbank found the works were dissimilar and the claims were barred because the statute of limitations had expired.

Considering how bad "Cars 2" were, I wouldn't want to claim ownership of the screenplay. :)

Zz.