Could "Top Gun: Maverick" Be Pulled From Theaters Due To A Copyright Claim?
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bert Show. |
| 0:01.0 | What's trending now? |
| 0:03.0 | Kristen Nas. |
| 0:04.0 | It's the Bert Show's entertainment bus. |
| 0:06.1 | Price of Paramount Pictures has been sued over the rights to top gun because they apparently |
| 0:11.4 | didn't have them. |
| 0:13.0 | According to the lawsuit recently filed the studio knew it didn't have the rights to the |
| 0:18.4 | sequel but forged ahead with production and distribution anyway. |
| 0:22.0 | Now, the complaint was filed by Shosh and Yavall Yane. |
| 0:25.7 | Their airs to Yui Yane, the author of the 1983 California magazine story titled Top Guns. |
| 0:34.8 | So he wrote this magazine article about Top Guns and that's what the original movie was |
| 0:39.0 | based on. |
| 0:40.5 | But apparently there is a provision in copyright law which allows authors to take back the |
| 0:47.1 | rights to the work after awaiting a period of time, typically 35 years. |
| 0:53.2 | And so literally by a year they were able to take back the rights because of this copyright |
| 0:59.0 | provision. |
| 1:00.0 | So they claim that the rights to the story wereverted back to them January of 2020. |
| 1:06.4 | Now, did they bring this up to Paramount before they made the movie? |
| 1:10.7 | Okay, this is what they did because if I think if you're smart you wait for them to come |
| 1:13.8 | out with the movie and then you're like, I saw how much you made right there. |
| 1:18.8 | I see. |
| 1:19.8 | I want some of that. |
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