A Shanghai court recently conducted a hearing on the lawsuit against several locations of the Chinese fast-food chain Real Kungfu for infringement of Bruce Lee’s image.
Bruce Lee Enterprises, LLC, headed by Shannon Lee, the daughter of Bruce Lee, filed the lawsuit in 2019 demanding that Real Kungfu immediately stop using the image of her father and pay compensation of 210 million yuan (about $30.56 million).
According to the court file on Aug. 25, the case was a dispute of “personality rights of a natural person,” the Chinese media reported.
Personality Rights
Bruce Lee, became an icon of martial arts following his character being portrayed in the movie Ip Man 3. The Ip Man series of films began as a Hong Kong biography of martial arts grandmaster Wing Chun, who was Lee’s teacher….