(1998) Tags: Fox
Briarpatch Ltd. v. Geisler Roberdeau
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Briarpatch Ltd. v. Geisler Roberdeau
This lawsuit is over a dispute for the rights to Terrence Malick’s motion picture The Thin Red Line.
The TRL Movie was a derivative work based upon the TRL Motion Picture Rights that Phoenix had acquired by a 1996 written agreement with Briarpatch Film Corp. Plaintiffs have throughout this litigation claimed that they, rather than Phoenix, own the TRL Motion Picture Rights, that the production and exploitation of the TRL Movie infringed the TRL Motion Picture Rights that Plaintiffs claimed to own.
Judgment: Against Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs Briarpatch Limited L.P. and Gerard F. Rubin, jointly and severally, are liable to Phoenix and Medavoy for their reasonable attorneys’ fees and full costs as prevailing parties in this litigation.
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada asserts that Fox recycled 4 minute and 54 seconds of the music score from the theatrical motion picture The Thin Red Line and used the prohibited music in the theatrical motion picture The Painter.