(2017) Tags: Paramount
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada v. SKODAM Films LLC
Plaintiff American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is a party to a collective bargaining agreement with an alliance of major motion picture producers, one of which is Paramount Pictures Corporation. The Agreement requires, inter alia, that all motion pictures produced by a signatory in the United States be musically scored in the United States or Canada pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.
As alleged in a lawsuit that AFM filed against Paramount in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Paramount breached the Agreement when it produced the forthcoming movie Same Kind of Different as Me in the United States but did not score the movie in the United States or Canada pursuant to the terms of the Agreement