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  1. July 08, 2025

    The Biggest Copyright Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report

    Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.

  2. February 24, 2025

    Filmmaker Seeks New IP Trial Against Shyamalan, Others

    A filmmaker has asked for a new copyright infringement trial against writer-director M. Night Shyamalan and his co-defendants Friday after a jury found that they did not have access to the film she claimed they infringed, arguing that the court failed to answer a crucial question from the jury before the verdict was delivered.

  3. January 24, 2025

    Shyamalan, Apple Cleared Of Copyright Infringement By Jury

    A California federal jury on Friday delivered M. Night Shyamalan from a real-life Hollywood nightmare when it cleared the director and others of stealing an independent filmmaker's work for his Apple TV+ show "Servant."

  4. January 23, 2025

    Think, McFly! 'Back To The Future' Writer Says No Apple Theft

    The co-writer of "Back to the Future" suggested to a California federal jury Thursday that an independent filmmaker suing Apple and acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan for copyright infringement should make like a tree and get out of the courtroom because her film bears no resemblance to the Apple TV+ show, "Servant."

  5. January 22, 2025

    Shyamalan Denies Theft From Indie Film: 'I Didn't See It'

    Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, who found success in Hollywood with his breakout movie "The Sixth Sense" about a child who sees dead people, testified Wednesday in a California federal trial that he never saw a film he's accused of stealing from for his Apple+ show "Servant" before it was produced.

  6. January 21, 2025

    Apple+ Show Took Key Elements From Film, USC Prof. Says

    A University of Southern California professor told a California federal jury Tuesday that the Apple+ show "Servant" borrowed at least 10 original elements from an independent film, and likened the theft to someone stealing from Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit play about Alexander Hamilton by claiming the historical figure is fair game.

  7. January 15, 2025

    'Absolutely Not': Apple+ Show's Creator Denies Stealing Idea

    The screenwriter who created the Apple+ show "Servant" testified Tuesday in a California federal trial that he didn't steal the "reborn baby" concept from an indie film, telling the jury that he had not seen the plaintiff's movie when he added the new idea to a story he'd been working on for over a decade.

  8. January 14, 2025

    Apple, Shyamalan Stole Indie Film Idea For 'Servant,' Jury Told

    Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Apple and other "Hollywood elite" stole from an indie director's movie in order to make a TV show called "Servant" for Apple TV+, a California federal jury heard during opening statements of an $81 million copyright infringement trial. 

  9. November 26, 2024

    Apple, Shyamalan Can't Dodge IP Suit Over 'Servant' Series

    A California federal judge refused to toss an indie director's claims that filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan copied her movie to make a TV show for Apple TV+, agreeing with the Ninth Circuit that the issue of whether the two works are substantially similar will need to be resolved by a jury.

  10. July 22, 2020

    Apple, Shyamalan Recoup Fees After Beating Copyright Suit

    A California federal judge is ordering a screenwriter to repay more than $160,000 in legal bills that Apple and M. Night Shyamalan spent fending off her failed copyright infringement lawsuit over the Apple TV+ series "Servant."