Lawsuit Alleges Apple, Tetris Company Adapted Book for Movie Without Permission

The editor-in-chief of tech publication Gizmodo is accusing Apple and The Tetris Company of adapting his book about the video game into a movie without his permission.in a New York district court on Monday, requesting damages of 6% of the film's $80 million production budget, equal to $4.8 million.

And the lawsuit says Ackerman's representatives sent his book to The Tetris Company's PR firm, which was given to Tetris CEO Maya Rogers and used to create the film's screenplay. The accusation that"Tetris" is adapted from Ackerman's book is also based on a similar"focus on Cold War intrigue and placing an outsized role on the Russian government organization ELORG."

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