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By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original “Top Gun” are suing Paramount Pictures over its sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick.” In a complaint filed in California federal court Monday, Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay claim that the rights to Ehud Yonay’s story reverted back to them on Jan. 24, 2020. The lawsuit contends that Paramount, which produced and distributed the sequel, did not reacquire those rights before releasing the film in May. A spokesperson for…

After a little over a week in theaters, Top Gun: Maverick has cemented itself as one of 2022’s biggest theatrical successes. Having made over $548 million worldwide at the time of this writing, the Tom Cruise-led currently stands as the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year. However, in the midst of box office triumph and earning critical acclaim from both professional reviewers and general audiences, Maverick now finds itself the subject of a lawsuit.Paramount Pictures is being sued over alleged copyright…

via Paramount Paramount Pictures is being sued for copyright infringement over its record-smashing, blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick by the family of Ehud Yonay, the Israeli author of the 1983 article “Top Guns,” on which the original 1986 film was based. And if the plaintiffs have their way, they could prevent Paramount from continuing to distribute the film on. The complaint, which was filed at a Los Angeles federal court on Monday, states that Paramount Global unit failed to reacquire the rights to the…

Paramount Pictures has been sued for copyright infringement over its latest blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick.The action movie – which sees Tom Cruise as the Navy’s top pilot confronting the ghosts of his past – is a sequel to the original 1986 movie, in which he also starred.Since its release on 27 May, it has broken box office records, earning an estimated $151m (£119m) in North America for the four-day Memorial Day weekend, in addition to another $85m (£68m) in its second week, including $25m (£20m) on Friday 3 June.…

Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick"Source: ParamountTom Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick" had another blockbuster weekend at the box office, but the studio behind the film could be feeling the heat from a lawsuit filed Monday.The family of the author whose article inspired the original 1986 "Top Gun" is suing Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement, stating that the studio failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud Yonay's 1983 article "Top Guns."Shosh and Yuval Yonay, heirs to Ehud Yonay, claim that they sent notice to…

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”, which appeared in a 1983 issue of California magazine, from his family before releasing the “derivative” sequel.Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, who live in Israel and are…

Image Source : MPL MPL Mobile Premier League, a gaming unicorn recently got the eyes when India's largest vernacular gaming platform named WinZo filed a lawsuit against MPL over alleged copyright violation in Delhi High Court . WinZo said in a statement on Saturday that the matter is now listed for further proceedings on July 4. The platform said that in March, it discovered that MPL copied its proprietary game 'World War' with a similar product, in an identical format with the identical name. When this was brought…

YouTuber DeoxysPrime has received a huge swathe of copyright strikes from Nintendo, forcing him to remove over a dozen soundtracks from his channel. Taking to Twitter, DeoxyPrime wrote: “Effective immediately I will be removing all Nintendo music from my channel. With 500+ claims and more than a dozen soundtracks blocked over the last week it’s pretty clear they don’t want their music on YouTube.” “This isn’t the first time I’ve dealt with this issue on my channel but it will be the last. I’m sorry to everyone who enjoys…

Photo by Abi Schreider on Unsplash Take-Two Interactive has sued several programmers and enthusiasts said to be behind the popular re3 and reVC Grand Theft Auto fan projects.The lawsuit says that after the company filed a DMCA takedown notice to remove the projects from Github, the defendants filed a bad faith counter notice to have the content reinstated, thus triggering this copyright infringement lawsuit.Earlier this year a group of programmers and Grand Theft Auto enthusiasts released ‘re3’ and ‘reVC’, a pair of…

You can’t summarize the webcomic Mr. Boop better than its first panel, which emerged out of what felt like the raging id of the internet on February 28, 2020. “My wife Betty Boop is really hot,” says Alec, the strip’s spectacled, grinning protagonist, a cartoon avatar for actual writer and artist Alec Robbins. His wife, you see, is Betty Boop. She’s really hot. At first blush, Mr. Boop might not seem all that different from the webcomics that largely defined the genre’s boom a decade or so ago: imperfectly drawn…