Studio behind Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick sued over copyright

The household of the writer whose article impressed the 1986 Tom Cruise film High Gun on Monday sued Paramount Photos for copyright infringement over this 12 months’s blockbuster sequel High Gun: Maverick.

In keeping with a grievance filed in Los Angeles federal courtroom, the Paramount World unit did not reacquire the rights to Ehud Yonay’s 1983 article “High Weapons”, which appeared in a 1983 concern of California journal, from his household earlier than releasing the “by-product” sequel.

Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, who stay in Israel and are respectively Ehud’s widow and son, mentioned Paramount intentionally ignored that the copyright reverted to them in January 2020, “thumbing its nostril” at federal copyright regulation. Paramount didn't instantly reply to requests for remark.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, together with some income from High Gun: Maverick, and to dam Paramount from distributing the film or additional sequels.

High Gun: Maverick is that this 12 months’s greatest field workplace hit, producing $291m (£232m) in North America and $548.6m (£438m) globally in its first 10 days of launch.

In keeping with Deadline, a spokesperson for Paramount responded by saying: “These claims are with out benefit, and we'll defend ourselves vigorously.”

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