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Subject: [MOPO] Screenwriter files copyright suit over 'Pirates of the
Caribbean'
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:43 -0700
LOS ANGELES (AP) A screenwriter filed a lawsuit claiming Walt Disney Co.
and others behind the 2003 blockbuster movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Curse of the Black Pearl" pillaged drawings and characters he had created
for an earlier project about supernatural swashbucklers.
Royce Mathew filed the copyright infringement suit in U.S. District Court
in Los Angeles on July 7 against Disney, Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
Jerry Bruckheimer Inc. and other defendants.
Mathew alleged that beginning in the 1980s, he "created and wrote a number
of original works including drawings, screenplays, outlines, blueprints,
storyboards and other original materials" for what he termed a "Super
Natural Pirate Movie."
Material filed with the U.S. Copyright Office included drawings depicting a
pirate ship named Black Pearl, the suit claimed, adding the material was
also pitched in Hollywood.
Disney denied the allegations.
"The suit has no merit," Heidi Trotta, a representative for Disney and
Buena Vista studios, said without elaboration.
Bruckheimer's publicist Paul Bloch had no comment, referring calls to
Disney.
The film raked in $305 million domestically at the box office. The sequel,
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," earned a record $135.6
million in its opening weekend beginning July 7.
Mathew is seeking unspecified damages, and a permanent injunction against
the movie or "other infringing works," according to the lawsuit.
Messages left for his attorney, Stephen Thomas, were not immediately
returned.
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