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Production company Paramount Pictures sued over copyright infringement in Top Gun: Maverick

Production company Paramount Pictures sued over copyright infringement in Top Gun: Maverick

According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles, the production company failed to acquire a right to a 1983 article Top Guns.
07 Jun, 2022

The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun on Monday sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year’s blockbuster sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, the Paramount Global unit failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud Yonay’s 1983 article Top Guns from his family before releasing the “derivative” sequel.

Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, who live in Israel and are respectively Ehud’s widow and son, said Paramount deliberately ignored that the copyright reverted to them in Jan 2020, “thumbing its nose” at federal copyright law.

Paramount did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, including some profits from Top Gun: Maverick, and to block Paramount from distributing the movie or further sequels.

The film is this year’s biggest box office hit, generating $291 million in North America and $548.6 million globally in its first 10 days of release.

Originally published in Dawn, June 7th, 2022

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Imtirian Hozmadadi Jun 07, 2022 11:48am
Success has its parasites, a technique perfected by Pakistanis
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Arif Jun 07, 2022 12:43pm
USA is a SUE Happy Country.. This is a Great Movie .... They are just Jealous
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Tumgan Dulogho Jun 07, 2022 12:58pm
@Arif you mean like pak artists constantly claiming copyright with Bollywood?
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Zak Jun 07, 2022 01:32pm
As expected, they crawl out of woodworks to claim piece of the pie.
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Zak Jun 07, 2022 01:34pm
@Tumgan Dulogho @Arif you mean like pak artists constantly claiming copyright with Bollywood? Difference is India is a prolific plagiriser while US is not.
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Inquisitor Jun 07, 2022 02:03pm
Typical of so many modern-day litigants: They did not produce a word of the original book yet like leeches they attempt to extract (exhort?) money from people who have done the hard yards to produce a blockbuster. Unfortunately, US courts are too kind to such paracites, thereby encouraging more laggards to try their luck and in so doing keep the money-hungry lawyers in loot.
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NYS Jun 07, 2022 03:27pm
Tom C you do some charity (sadqa صدقہ) for smooth clearance .Many hurdles are curtailing this project
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Babar khan Jun 08, 2022 11:05am
@Tumgan Dulogho yah because you stealing every song made by pakistani industry and ruining those songs,more the half of the Bollywood hit songs are pakistani songs and you can't deny that.
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