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PayPal-based assets owned by the companies behind Popcorn Time will be frozen until further notice, as a Virginia federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction in a suit from several Hollywood companies who say their films are being pirated on the site.

Jim and John Thomas, the brothers who wrote the 1987 action film Predator, have filed a lawsuit against Disney seeking confirmation of successfully recapturing rights to the franchise. Meanwhile, Disney's 20th Century unit has filed its own suit against the Thomas brothers with the goal of retaining rights.

In an international legal battle over the alleged infringement of robots powered by artificial intelligence, both sides are pointing to robotic legends of the silver screen.

A copyright suit alleging the Oscar winner ripped off a Pulitzer Prize winning author was revived last year by an appeals court. Now comes a dismissal and a statement how claims of plagiarism were "unfounded."

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A lawsuit brought by Truman Capote's statutory heir against Paramount Pictures over adaptation rights to Breakfast at Tiffany's continues to evolve. Now, the studio is facing a $20 million copyright claim just based on a screenplay that Paramount executives have circulated internally.

Back in the mid-1980s, Lynn Goldsmith licensed her image to Vanity Fair, which commissioned Warhol to make a silkscreen. Warhol created 15 additional works for a series on Prince, and Goldsmith says she didn't know about this until Prince died in 2016.

The character of Anthony Rogers first appeared in the 1929 novella, Armageddon 2419 A.D. The copyright on that particular work wasn’t renewed in the 1950s. As a result, anyone is free to adapt that story. The Nowlans, engaged in protracted litigation over the years, claim to hold rights to later comic book stories the character soon became known as "Buck Rogers" as well as trademarks.

Will Paramount Pictures be able to make a new version of Breakfast at Tiffany's? Or will it be another studio? On Feb. 2, Paramount hinted at how it will be defending the claim that it has lost ownership by sitting on rights for too long.

Friday the 13th producer Sean Cunningham has launched a new lawsuit over net profits from the horror franchise. According to a complaint filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the studios distributing the films have "systematically misaccounted" contingent compensation.

A D.C. federal judge found it's an unconstitutional content-based restriction on free speech to make filmmakers pay to shoot in national parks just because their work is commercial.

Court papers confirm success for Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the 1987 horror movie.

The author who created Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has been dead for seven decades but producers behind Netflix's 2020 film Enola Holmes say the writer's estate is unfairly trying to prevent creators from using the iconic detective character in original works.

Often, the legal threats come hot and heavy. But that's not what happens when Bill Murray uses without license the Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music" for an advertisement for his golf shirts, and the band must react. Here, the group's attorney Peter Paterno attempts to lightly scold Murray. He writes, "It seems like the only person who uses our clients' music without permission more than you do is Donald Trump We'd almost be OK with it if the shirts weren't so damn ugly."