Business Maverick: Top Gun: Maverick’ lawsuit can move forward against Paramount

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Paramount Pictures failed to persuade a judge to throw out a copyright lawsuit that claims the distributor released its blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick without securing a license from the estate of the writer whose story inspired the original film about ...

US District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles allowed the lawsuit to move forward in a ruling on Thursday, rejecting Paramount’s claim that the plaintiff hasn’t shown the article and the film are “substantially similar”.

“The court finds that there are enough alleged similarities between the article and the sequel for reasonable minds to differ on the issue of substantial similarity,” the judge wrote.was Paramount’s biggest box office opening since the release ofin 2010 and has grossed $1.5-billion worldwide since its opening May 27, according to Box Office Mojo.in April 1983 in an issue of California magazine and registered it in the US Copyright Office later that year.

The Yonays’ claim that after sending Paramount a statutory notice of termination under the Copyright Act in 2018, they became the sole owners of the US copyright for the story in 2020. They said they invoked a provision of the law that allows artists who transfer copyrights to reclaim those rights 35 years later.

 

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Cant be copyright for story that says cruise is top of game, loses girlfriend, scrapes rock bottom, gets girlfriend, top of game again (like all his movies)

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