{"id":37314,"date":"2021-04-17T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=37314"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:09:12","slug":"screenwriters-for-predator-are-suing-disney-in-an-attempt-to-get-the-rights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=37314","title":{"rendered":"Screenwriters for &#8216;Predator&#8217; are suing Disney in an attempt to get the rights back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/predator-1024x551.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/predator-1024x551.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/predator-300x161.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/predator-768x413.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/predator-1536x826.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/predator.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>VIA: 20th Century Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brothers Jim and John Thomas will take Disney to court in an attempt to regain the rights to the franchise. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Thomas brothers wrote the 1987 hit movie starring action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger  and have now filed a lawsuit in pursuit of regaining the rights to the franchise. Disney&#8217;s 20th Century Fox has filed its own law suit, trying to retain the rights to the galactic warrior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brothers are trying to use copyright law&#8217;s termination provision, which allows authors and creators the ability to cancel their transfer of series after waiting a period of time(usually 30 plus years). The rights to a bunch of classic 1980s films are in danger due to this provision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20th Century Fox immediately creating their own lawsuit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;While federal statutory copyright law endows certain grantors, like defendants [the Thomas brothers], with copyright termination rights, such rights may only be exercised in accordance with the statute\u2019s requirements, including provisions delineating when termination notices may be served and when the termination of rights becomes effective. Defendants\u2019 notices fail to comply with these statutory requirements and are invalid as a matter of law.&#8221;<\/p><cite>20th Century Fox<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nBrothers Jim and John Thomas will take Disney to court in an attempt to regain the rights to the franchise.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=37314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Screenwriters for &#8216;Predator&#8217; are suing Disney in an attempt to get the rights back&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":37318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3126],"class_list":["post-37314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-predator","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Screenwriters for &#039;Predator&#039; are suing Disney in an attempt to get the rights back - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=37314\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Screenwriters for &#039;Predator&#039; are suing Disney in an attempt to get the rights back - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brothers Jim and John Thomas will take Disney to court in an attempt to regain the rights to the franchise. 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