 Comparisons were made between the case and that of Mehdi Norowzian , a British director who complained about Diageo 's , the drinks conglomerate , for allegedly plagiarising his work in their 1994 Anticipation campaign for Guinness @-@ brand stout . The matter was complicated by the fact that Wieden + Kennedy acknowledged that the film had served as an " inspiration " for " Cog " , and had distributed copies of the work to its script @-@ writers . Ultimately , Fischli and Weiss did not file a lawsuit against either Wieden + Kennedy or Honda UK . 
