Every year Apple has to defend itself from a multitude of lawsuits it receives of all kinds. She is used to it. Usually they are due to errors in their devices, or due to technical issues of hardware and its specific functions. In November of last year, it launched its Apple TV + video platform and two months later it already fell the first demand.
In January of this year the Italian film director Francesca Gregory He denounced before the courts that "Servant" was a plagiarism of his film "The truth about Emanuel" released in 2013. The judge has ruled and dismissed the claim.
A California federal judge has the lawsuit dismissed copyright filed against Apple and director M. Night Shyamalan, claiming that the Apple TV + Servant series stole their central idea from a 2013 indie film.
As in her series of Apple TV + «Servant", the movie "The truth about Emanuel»Is the story of a traumatized father who hires a nanny to take care of a baby who turns out to be really a doll.
The lawsuit, which was filed by film director Francesca Gregorini in federal court in California earlier this year, argued that "Servant" was a "wholesale copy»From his 2013 film.
"Mr. Shyamalan it has come to appropriate not only Emanuel's plot, but also his use of cinematographic language, creating a substantially similar feeling, mood and theme, ”its director said. He also argued that "both works use magical realism to create an otherworldly mood."
Judge John F. Walter ruled yesterday that there is not enough similarity to justify a lawsuit. Although there is certainly a «shared premise", Both stories" diverge dramatically and rapidly. " A shared premise is not something that can be protected by copyright law.
The judge noted that, for example, in "Servant" the doll at the heart of the story comes alive. It is also a darker story, compared to the "hopeful and positive" film by the Italian director. Gregorini ... did not slip.