With Similarity Lacking, California Federal Judge Dismisses Copyright Case

(September 14, 2017, 1:10 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Allegations that the sponsor of a screenwriting contest misappropriated one of the submissions for use in the hit ABC sitcom “Black-ish” were rejected Sept. 13 by a California federal judge, who found no similarity between the sitcom and the submission as required to maintain a claim of copyright infringement (David Lloyd Marcus v. ABC Signature Studios Inc., et al., No. 17-148, C.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148568)....

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