James Cameron, the filmaker behind the 2009 blockbuster film Avatar, had a lawsuit filed against him in a claim by screenwriter Bryant Moore regarding the hit movie. Moore is suing Cameron for copyright infringement insisting that he used ideas that came from two of Moore's screenplays called Aquatica and Descendants: The Pollination. Moore claims that he gave Cameron the screenplays to those movies in 1993 and 1994 and was denied his submissions soon after. Moore filed the law suit in 2011 seeking $2.5 billion dollars in damages for copy right infringement.
On March 18, 2013 Cameron and the company Fox (that aided in Avatar's production ans is also being sued) were in court in an attempt to dismiss Moore's lawsuit, an action that the judge ultimately denied. Cameron and Moore are thus due to a jury-trial case that will occur within the next 4-6 months.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/james-cameron-fox-denied-dismissal-of-latest-avatar-lawsuit/
I found this quite interesting because the lawsuit is still developing in the sense that the public has yet to see what will come of the case, whether or not Moore will win etc. I'm curious as to what will happen seeing how this is not the first case against Avatar for copyright infringement and in all other cases Cameron and Fox have won. I anticipate the future in finding out whether or not Moore will win (in my personal opinion I don't think he should, I don't think his screenplays were similar at all).
There has also been plot comparisons/mirrors between "Avatar" and "Pocahontas", too. There are some funny videos commenting about it on Youtube.
ReplyDeleteActually I heard a lot of critics said that the movie's story was very similar to the Pocahontas and I thought I heard that the movie was going to get sued for that copyright too, but I couldn't find anything on it when I searched for it.
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