In 1996, producers Ronald A. Weinberg and Micheline Charest as well as screenwriter Christophe Izard were sued for plagiarism by Montreal artist Claude Robinson who claimed that 'Robinson Sucroë' borrowed heavily from a concept (story, characters and drawings) that he developed and presented to Weinberg and Charest during the 1980s. In 2009, 14 years later, judge Claude Auclair of the Superior Court of Quebec ruled in favor of Claude Robinson and sentenced the defendants to pay him the amount of $5.2m. (One of the defendants, Charest, died in 2004, following plastic surgery.)
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