Comment by greenyoda
12 years ago
Small Claims Courts are limited to claims of a certain amount, typically something like $500. There's no way he could get back anywhere close to the real value of his design by suing them there.
Besides, what the movie makes doesn't matter. He'd be suing the ad agency that ripped off his design, not the producers of the movie.
It's $10,000 in California and you don't need a lawyer. However, winning is no sure thing; we're only getting one side of the story.