(1998) Tags: Paramount
Craig Mowrey, Inc. v. Viacom International
Plaintiff Craig Mowry brought this action for copyright infringement, alleging that defendants’ motion picture “The Truman Show” infringed on Mowry’s unpublished screenplay entitled “The Crew.”
Mowry claims that Andrew Niccol’s successful screenplay for the motion picture The Truman Show was not an original work of authorship, but was in fact “knowingly and deliberately stolen by defendants from Mowry’s copyrighted screenplay, treatment and character profiles for The Crew.”