Tupac Shakur Film Hit with Copyright Suit by Writer

2017/06/27

A magazine writer has taken on the creators of “All Eyez on Me”, a biopic about the late rapper Tupac Shakur, in a copyright lawsuit. Writer Kevin Powell filed the claim at the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on June 23. According to the suit the biopic, which aired earlier in June, infringed copyright in a series of original articles written by Powell. The articles, which were written for Vibe Magazine, were based on the “life and struggles” of Shakur. The articles centre around the childhood and roots of Shakur, his mother, and their struggle, as the basis for a piece “not just about a rapper but about the young black male identity crisis in America today”. The biopic features a character named Nigel, based on Agnant, according to Powell.

Source: WIPR