The fallen Canadian animation giant and partners are ordered to pay punitive damages to Claude Robinson for stealing the character for a Robinson Crusoe-inspired cartoon. By Etan Vlessing Canada ...

In 2000, the animation industry was rocked by the collapse of Cinar Corp., the Canadian cartoon producer behind such popular series as "Arthur," "Calliou" and "The Busy World of Richard Scarry." By ...

MONTREAL — Troubled Canadian children’s TV producer Cinar has settled out-of-court with two of its subsidiaries, U.S. publishing companies Carson-Dellosa Publishing and HighReach Learning. Cinar ...

A Montreal cartoonist who spent more than a decade fighting a major production company over plagiarism has finally won his battle in court. Children's entertainment production company Cinar, which was ...

Claude Robinson, a doggedly determined Montreal animator, has won a 13-year-long legal battle against the children's animation firm formerly known as Cinar Corp.

Canada's Cinar has inked a raft of programme sales for its animated kids' properties, including new buys for Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Little Lulu Show and Mona The Vampire. Cinar’s The Little ...

Former children's animation mogul Micheline Charest died Wednesday afternoon, a month after selling her shares in the scandal-plagued Cinar company that she founded with her husband. A spokeswoman for ...

A plagiarism lawsuit involving a popular cartoon character got underway in Montreal this week after nearly a decade of legal obstacles. Quebec cartoonist Claude Robinson has accused Cinar Films Inc.

MONTREAL — Micheline Charest, co-founder and former CEO of troubled Canuck animation company Cinar, died Wednesday in Montreal from complications following plastic surgery. She was 51. Charest was ...