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Chinese writer sues US movie giant over copyright

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-04-11 10:20

DONGYING, Shandong -- A local court on Wednesday heard the lawsuit by a Chinese science fiction writer for alleged infringement of his copyright by US movie giant 20th Century Fox Film Corporation.

The court open at 8:30 a.m. on the second day after the US government filed two WTO cases against China over intellectual property rights and access to the Chinese publication market.

The writer, a 43-year-old Li Jianmin, said 20th Century Fox while producing the movie The Day After Tomorrow copied the creative conception and the major plots of two plays he completed in 2001 and 2002.

Li lodged the lawsuit at the the Intermediate People's Court of Dongying, east China's Shandong Province in March last year. The court accepted the suit last April.