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Paramount Wins ‘Top Gun’ Copyright Lawsuit (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

See opening to long-ass Harris Bomberguy video about plagiarism - the last big lawsuit authors won was in the nineteen goddamn seventies.

The franchise is explicitly based on this guy and his stories. They licensed the rights to it for the first movie. Second movie rolls around and suddenly they never heard of him?