The movie "Heroes of Fire" involved in plagiarism? These 8 film publishers have been sued

Zhongxin Jingwei Client, November 8th. According to news from the Beijing Haidian Court Network on the 8th, because it is believed that the film "Heroes of Fire" has plagiarized a lot of expressions in the story background, character setting, character relationship, main plot setting, and ending arrangement. Plagiarized his copyrighted work "Flamingo", Li Moumou used the reason of copyright infringement to produce the film and the distributor, China Film Distribution Co., Ltd., Bona Pictures Group Co., Ltd., Asia Pacific China Film (Beijing) Pictures Co., Ltd., Alibaba Pictures (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Wanda Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. and other 8 companies filed suits in court. According to information published on the Haidian Court website, the plaintiff Li Moumou alleged that the original novel "Flamingo" written by him in 2018 showing the real work and life of firefighters was serialized online. In July 2019, in accordance with the agreement of the Cultural Development Press, the paper novel "The Fire Silent" was officially published. In August 2019, the movie "Heroes of Fire" was shown in theaters. After comparison, it was found that the film "Heroes of Fire" has a lot of expression in the story background, character setting, character relationships, main plot settings, special details, and ending arrangements. Plagiarized and plagiarized the plaintiff's work "Flamingo".

Plaintiff Li Moumou believes that China Film Distribution Co., Ltd., Bona Film Group Co., Ltd., Asia Pacific China Film (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd., Alibaba Pictures (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Wanda Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., etc. The movie "Heroes of Fire" published by eight companies plagiarized and plagiarized their works, which seriously violated their copyrights such as the right to adapt the work, the right to sign the work and the right to remuneration. Therefore, he sued the court and ordered eight companies to immediately stop publishing and distributing the movie "Heroes of Fire", publicly apologize to him in a written statement recognized by the national media or the court, and compensate him for economic losses of 3 million yuan.

It is understood that the Haidian Court accepted the case a few days ago, and the case is currently under further trial.