Jayme Gordon, an amateur cartoonist, has been sentenced to two years in prison for wire fraud and perjury in a case that began as a copyright dispute over the “Kung Fu Panda” film. Gordon was found guilty of seven counts of wire fraud and perjury at the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts in November last year. On May 3, he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined $3 million in damages.
Gordon originally filed a copyright infringement suit at the Massachusetts court in 2011, alleging that the characters and story of “Kung Fu Panda” were based on drawings and story ideas he had submitted to DreamWorks Animation. In his copyright suit with DreamWorks, Gordon later asked the production company to settle by paying him $12 million.

Source: WIPR