{"id":39814,"date":"2022-06-07T02:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paramount-studios-sued-over-top-gun-copyright\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T02:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T02:23:37","slug":"paramount-studios-sued-over-top-gun-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paramount-studios-sued-over-top-gun-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Studios sued over &#8216;Top Gun&#8217; copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<p>In a complaint filed in California federal court Monday, the heirs to Ehud Yonay&#8217;s 1983 article, &#8220;Top Guns,&#8221; state the film distribution company did not reacquire the rights for the recently released sequel, &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shosh and Yuval Yonay claim that they sent a notice of termination to Paramount and that the rights reverted back to them in January 2020, the complaint, obtained by CNN, states.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Yonays, production on &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221; did not finish until May 2021, more than a year after the studio knew it no longer had the rights to the source material.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><noscript><img alt=\"'Top Gun: Maverick'  soars to big second weekend, crosses $ 500 million worldwide\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220526152145-02-top-gun-large-169.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously,&#8221; Paramount Studios told CNN in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<p>The movie, starring Tom Cruise, was initially set for a July 2019 release but faced numerous delays and is currently sitting atop the domestic box office for the second week in a row.<\/p>\n<p>CNN has reached out to attorneys for Shosh and Yuval Yonay for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a complaint filed in California federal court Monday, the heirs to Ehud Yonay&#8217;s 1983 article, &#8220;Top Guns,&#8221; state the film distribution company did not reacquire the rights for the recently released sequel, &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick.&#8221; Shosh and Yuval Yonay claim that they sent a notice of termination to Paramount and that the rights reverted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/paramount-studios-sued-over-top-gun-copyright\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paramount Studios sued over &#8216;Top Gun&#8217; copyright<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,18252],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220526152145-02-top-gun-super-tease.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}