Disney/PIXAR Sued Over Luxo, Jr.

Posted by Daniel
September 9, 2009

Disney/PIXAR is being sued by a Norweigian lighting company, Luxo, over upcoming sales of a Luxo Jr. toy with the Blu-Ray discs of Up. The Norweigian company claims sales of the desk-lamp character (as well as the walk-around character in Walt Disney World), created by John Lasseter in 1986, will be devestating to Luxo. The company hadn’t sought litigation before because no definitive name was given to the character until now.

A spokesman for Disney said the company hadn’t seen the complaint and couldn’t comment.

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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: gdgourou
Posted on:: September 9, 2009 at 8:17 am

I would precise that according to press articles, the mean reason is that they’re wasn’t any lamp product before…

A toy reproduction of Luxo Jr is put with the Blue-Ray Disc Collector editionand the audio-animatronic is a also a living reproduction… so it could be a copyright violation. Pixar hasn’t sign a licence to product real lamp with the Luxo design… The short could be a hommage but not a toy… Isn’t link with a naming, but with the final product.

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Written by:: Jan Mohler
Posted on:: September 14, 2009 at 5:43 pm

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Comment Number:: 3
Written by:: Daniel
Posted on:: September 15, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Busy work schedules and vacation schedules have put the podcast on a hiatus. It should be back up and running fairly soon.

Remember Van has a job and a family.

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Written by:: Jan Mohler
Posted on:: September 16, 2009 at 8:38 pm

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