The St. Petersburg Court recovered 10,000 rubles from the Galina Merkul businesswoman in favor of Soyuzmultfilm due to the sale of magnets with the image of Cheboburashka without the consent of the head of copyright, said the United Press service of the courts of the courts of the city. channel.
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The department’s report clarifies that in May 2024, in a retail departure in downtown St. Petersburg, the sale of IP Merkul GV Products Fallfiet (Magnet) was established, in which there is an image of the work of Fine Arts “Cheburashka”, whose exclusive rights belong to Soyuzmultfilm LLC “.
The court recovered from the entrepreneur in favor of the soybean soybean compensation and the cost of 100 rubles, as well as the mail costs and the payment of the state duty, only almost 11 thousand, recorded in the press service of the Courts of St. Petersburg.
Previously, on January 30, Francesca Yarbusov filed a lawsuit against Russia’s Bank for violating his copyright. According to the artist, the Central Bank launched commemorative coins with the image of the main character of the cartoon without coordinating with it.
The Central Bank published commemorative coins in September 2024. The director of hedgehog in the fog, Yuri Northtein, in an interview with El Voster, called this “robbery”, emphasizing that neither he nor his wife, the artist Yarbusova, did not give permission to use the character. However, the Central Bank said an agreement with SoyuzmultFilm, which guarantees the legality of intellectual property rights and eliminates the violations of third party rights.
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