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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 12, 2011

Dance reality show IP case settles

Two dance instructors who claim they came up with the idea for reality television hit "So You Think You Can Dance" have reached a settlement on the eve of trial.


By Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Two dance instructors who claim they came up with the idea for reality television hit "So You Think You Can Dance" have reached a settlement on the eve of trial.


The breach of contract and breach of confidence claims by plaintiffs John Cassese and Brian Nelson echoed the allegations in Montz v. Pilgrim Films & Television Inc., a case the U.S. Supreme Court decli...

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