Montreal animator successfully sues Cinar/Cookie Jar Entertainment in a $5.2-million plagiarism case

Here's a great article about how Claude Robinson got on with life after winning a 14-year battle over rights to his character.

"Each individual creator has a duty to protect their creations. It's an extension of themselves. It was my face, my personality, and the producers pretended they never met me!" - Claude Robinson

He had presented his work to producers at Cinar, who turned down his concept. Sometime later, he saw Cinar's Robinson Sucroé series and found what he called identical and undeniable similarities with his original pitch.
The awarded settlement includes:

• $607,000 for copyright infringement.
• $1.7 million for profits earned by Cinar and other broadcasting companies.
• $400,000 for psychological distress.
• $1 million in exemplary damages.
• $1.5 million for legal fees.

Here's a clip of the series: