Teh One Who Knocks
11-23-2016, 01:01 PM
WFTV Channel 9
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A 51-year-old Massachusetts man is facing 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of trying to scam animation studio DreamWorks out of $12 million by claiming he created one of their characters, officials said.
Jayma Gordon initially filed a copyright infringement claim against DreamWorks in February 2011, in which he said he created the character Po from “Kung Fun Panda” years before the first movie came out.
Gordon offered to drop the suit for $12 million, but DreamWorks rejected the deal and continued fighting the lawsuit, court documents show.
The scheme started falling apart when DreamWorks found that Gordon had traced some of his “original” drawings of “Kung Fu Panda Power” from a Disney “Lion King” coloring book, investigators said.
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The images could not have been drawn in 1993, as Gordon claimed, because the coloring book was not printed until 1996, DreamWorks’ attorneys argued.
Gordon offered to drop the lawsuit, but after two years of litigation and $3 million in attorneys’ fees, DreamWorks wanted him charged criminally.
During his trial for wire fraud and perjury, Gordon testified that the images from the Disney “Lion King” coloring book had also been stolen from him.
“He claimed Disney had copied his drawings and appeared to have based the character Timon, from the ‘Lion King,’ on (his) drawings,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a release.
When Gordon is sentenced in March, he faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years and $500,000 in fines.
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A 51-year-old Massachusetts man is facing 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of trying to scam animation studio DreamWorks out of $12 million by claiming he created one of their characters, officials said.
Jayma Gordon initially filed a copyright infringement claim against DreamWorks in February 2011, in which he said he created the character Po from “Kung Fun Panda” years before the first movie came out.
Gordon offered to drop the suit for $12 million, but DreamWorks rejected the deal and continued fighting the lawsuit, court documents show.
The scheme started falling apart when DreamWorks found that Gordon had traced some of his “original” drawings of “Kung Fu Panda Power” from a Disney “Lion King” coloring book, investigators said.
http://i.imgur.com/o9d12oa.jpg
The images could not have been drawn in 1993, as Gordon claimed, because the coloring book was not printed until 1996, DreamWorks’ attorneys argued.
Gordon offered to drop the lawsuit, but after two years of litigation and $3 million in attorneys’ fees, DreamWorks wanted him charged criminally.
During his trial for wire fraud and perjury, Gordon testified that the images from the Disney “Lion King” coloring book had also been stolen from him.
“He claimed Disney had copied his drawings and appeared to have based the character Timon, from the ‘Lion King,’ on (his) drawings,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a release.
When Gordon is sentenced in March, he faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years and $500,000 in fines.