Entertainment & Sports,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 30, 2022
“Top Gun” lawsuit won’t fly, Paramount responds
Molly M. Lens of O’Melveny & Myers LLP said that when the court reads the piece, titled “Top Guns” and published by California Magazine in 1983 and watches the recently released sequel, “it is clear as a matter of law that ‘Maverick’ does not borrow any of the article’s protected expression.”
Paramount, the studio behind “Top Gun: Maverick,” filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the production of violating the copyright on a magazine article that inspired the original 1986 movie.
“[T]hat article — which plaintiffs tellingly do not attach to the complaint — is a nonfiction piece on the Navy Fighter Weapons School,” Molly M. Lens of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, who represents Paramount Pictures Corp., wrote in the motion fil...
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