Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, has sued a Chinese fast food chain for using her father’s picture without permission, as reported by BBC.
Her company, Bruce Lee Enterprises had accused the fast food chains catering management of using the image of the late martial arts Hollywood star as their logo without any permission or payment of intellectual property rights for 15 years.
The restaurant chain gave a response saying that the logo has been authorized by the Chinese authorities. The company wrote on Weibo platform: “We’re confused that we are prosecuted many years later. We’re actively studying the case and preparing to respond.”
According to the Chinese internet portal sina.com, Shannon had asked the chain to stop using her father’s image, clarify within 90 days that it has nothing to do with her father and pay a compensation sum of 210 million yuan (US$30 million).
The Guangzhou-based restaurant chain is known as Real Kung Fu (Zhen Gongfu in Chinese). The Bruce Lee logo has been used since 2004 which has a dark-haired man in a kung fu pose and dressed in a yellow outfit, similar to Lee’s look in Game of Death which has remained incomplete due to his untimely death in 1973.