Entertainment & Sports
Jun. 27, 2023
Columbia slams ‘Bad Boys’ screenwriter’s copyright claims
“Columbia Pictures relied on the fact that the story was a work for hire,” Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner Kelly M. Klaus wrote in the complaint.
Columbia Pictures sued the co-writer of the story on which the 1995 hit film “Bad Boys” is based in a legal dispute over who owns the rights to the movie and any derivative works.
“It is iron-clad law, plain and simple, that works for hire are not subject to termination under Section 203 of the Copyright Act,” Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner Kelly M. Klaus wrote in the complaint. Under U.S. copyright law, a work made for hire legal...
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