At the beginning of March, Wuhan Huaqi Film & TV Production, the producer of the motion picture Ren Zai Jiongtu (Lost on the Journey), announced that it was launching suit against Beijing Enlight Media, the producer of Ren Zai Jiongtu Zhi Taijiong (Lost on the Journey in Thailand) and others in the Beijing Municipal Higher People’s Court claiming “unfair competition and copyright infringement”.
Wang Yadong
润明律师事务所
执行合伙人
Executive Partner
Run Ming Law Office
One of the claims the producer of Lost on the Journey identified in this suit was that Lost on the Journey in Thailand was substantively identical or similar to Lost on the Journey in terms of “conception, plot, story, theme and dialogue in numerous places”, constituting an infringement on its copyright.
In recent years, the phenomenon of “following the latest trend” has been prevalent in the mainland film and television market. The duplication, to varying degrees, of subjects, backgrounds, themes, characters and plot structure – the “settings” – has triggered an increase in disputes.
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Wang Yadong is the executive partner and Zhang Jing is a senior lawyer at Run Ming Law Office
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