over Disney’s rights to “Winnie-the-Pooh”and a ruling that confirmed Lionsgate’s victory against a music label that alleged the film 50/50 infringed a trademark. Among the ones that the high court has denied cert on is a ruling against Stephen Slesinger Inc. Some other cases weren’t as lucky making the cut. We recently covered the Supreme Court agreeing to review a copyright lawsuit against MGM over Raging Bull.
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“The movie tells a highly fictionalized version of what actually happened.” “To make him into a hero for driving this boat and these men into pirate-infested waters, that’s the real injustice here,” Brian Beckcom told ABC News. And now their lawyer has begun to attack the film. Nine of the 20 crew members have been involved in a three-year-old lawsuit that alleges their lives were put in danger “knowingly, intentionally and willfully” by the ship’s owner. The film stars Tom Hanks and will be released on Friday. Richard Phillip, taken captive by Somali pirates in 2009, react to the motion picture about the ordeal. That might not be fair, but something worth watching is how crew members of the ship of Capt. It’s not uncommon in the Oscars race for a film’s historical accuracy to become an issue. Here’s the court’s ruling, which starts out with a Johnny Cash lyric with aliens added. In response, Busti points to the judge’s findings of a number of similar elements shared by both works, which didn’t rise to copyright infringement, but what he says wasn’t a claim “frivolous or objectively unreasonable.” (Busti also appealed the judge’s order on Monday to the 5th Circuit.) In a motion for attorneys’ fees, the defendants (including Platinum Studios) point to the judge’s decision that there was “no fact issue as to factual copying,” “no evidence of access,” “no showing of striking similarity” and “overwhelming, conclusive evidence of independent creation.” Busti was also warned by defendants that his claims were barred by the statute of limitations and that he failed to state the basic elements of a claim.
Now comes an arguably closer call as the judge has to decide whether Universal should be allowed to recover the $186,000 paid to attorneys at Haynes & Boone, who say they spent 544 hours on the case at a $250-$400 per-hour rate. Governors Awards: Oscar Hopefuls Return in Huge Numbers as Academy Event Turns 13
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