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Warner Bros Tangled up in $900m "The Conjuring”Copyright Claim

2017/04/07

Gerald Brittle, the author of a book on paranormal investigators, has taken a shot at Warner Bros in a copyright infringement claim focusing on film franchise “The Conjuring”.
Brittle filed the 355-page amended complaint at the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on March 29, seeking $900 million in damages and costs. The agreement allegedly included a “no competing work” provision that precluded the Warrens from making or contracting for any works based on the “same subject” as “The Demonologist”, including their “lives and experiences as paranormal investigators”. Brittle claimed that Warner Bros needed to have, but “knowingly never bothered to obtain”, his permission and support.

Source: IPR in China
　　




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