Both fish are orange, but Pierrot is more orange while Nemo is closer to red, the judge said. As for fans, it is “difficult to imagine that they would confuse Nemo with Pierrot,” Raingeard de ...

Last November 3,000 copies of his book narrating the adventures of Pierrot were republished, but he claims that many bookstores refused to carry it for fear that it was a Nemo fake. The author ...

PARIS — A Paris judge on Wednesday will examine a claim by children’s author Franck Le Calvez that Disney plagiarized his book “Pierrot the Clownfish” in its film “Finding Nemo.” ...

Franck Le Calvez went to court Monday to argue that the lovable title character in "Finding Nemo" is a copy of his own creation, a smiling orange-and-white clown fish named Pierrot. A Paris judge ...

Franck Le Calvez claimed that the film's title character was based on his orange and white clown fish, Pierrot. But a French court ruled on Wednesday that Nemo had existed before Pierrot and that Le ...

A French children’s author has sued Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios, claiming the cartoon fish they catapulted to fame in the worldwide blockbuster “Finding Nemo” was ...

Franck Le Calvez argued that the lovable title character in Finding Nemo was based on his smiling orange-and-white clown fish named Pierrot. Judge Louis-Marie Raingeard de la Bletiere ruled Friday ...

Writer Franck Le Calvez says many characters in the film look very much like those of a book he published last year, Pierrot the Clown Fish. Mr Le Calvez says Nemo - who is also a clown fish - appears ...

It was not simply the uncanny physical likeness - white stripes, large, bulging orange eyes - between Nemo and Pierrot, which he created when he was a student and aspiring film-maker. Considering ...

Franck Le Calvez went to court on Monday to argue that the lovable title character in Finding Nemo is a copy of his own creation, a smiling orange-and-white clown fish named Pierrot. A Paris judge ...