As you may recall, Judge Kozinski was a really big fan of movies--so much that he insisted his female clerks watch along with him!-- so it's only fitting that his return to private practice involved a copyright infringement case about a flick; specifically Top Gun Maverick.
I heard about the case and downloaded the complaint. The name of the Plaintiff's second lawyer immediately caught my eye:
Alex Kozinski (S.B. # 66473)alex@kozinski.com
719 Yarmouth Rd, Suite 101
Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274
Telephone: (310) 541-5885
Huh! I wonder if Lat will write about this in his newsletter!
Here's the background of the lawsuit:
In 1983, a dude named Ehud Yonay wrote an article for California magazine called "Top Guns," a character-driven tale of two ambitious Navy fighter pilots. Paramount Pictures bought up the film rights, and three years later, in 1986, "Top Gun" came out. The rights to the article reverted back to the Yonays in January 2020.
Now Yonay's family say they own the copyright to the story and that Paramount is infringing on it.
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