By neglecting to answer, the court took as truth statements supporting CAA’s position that it first received his screenplay in November 2015 and that only one of its agents ever received his work, among other things. “By contrast, Plaintiff first submitted a copy of Cosmic Force to Defendant CAA on November 10, 2015, and then again on September 23, 2016.”Ĭentral to the finding was Jones’ failure to respond in time to CAA’s request for admissions, which is a set of statements sent between litigants for the purpose of having a party admit or deny the allegations. “It is undisputed that Defendants Gray and Gross submitted the Ad Astra November 29, 2013, Script to a CAA agent in November 2013, and submitted the May 22, 2015, Script to additional CAA agents on May 22, 2015,” stated the order, which noted that Jones’ work was never uploaded to CAA’s repository of screenplays. According to court filings, Jones said he created “Cosmic Force” toward the end of 2014, but Gray and Gross finished the first draft of Ad Astra in 2013. ![]() In this case, the court concluded that wasn’t possible under the timeline in which the screenplays were completed. Instead, evidence of submission to an intermediary who’s in a position to share the work with the creators alleged to have engaged in infringement is necessary. Merely showing that an agency received a screenplay, for example, isn’t enough. To prove copyright infringement, there typically must be proof that there was copying facilitated by access to the work at issue. The head of de Passe Entertainment alleged ideas from his work were stolen after he shared it with CAA agents, who then allegedly schemed with Gray and Gross to use it as the foundation for Ad Astra. The lawsuit from Jones revolves around a screenplay titled “Cosmic Force,” which follows a soldier who’s recruited to lead a mission across space to find his missing astronaut father and discovers an alien energy source that threatens the universe. ![]() “Justice was not done, here, and we plan to appeal the decision to not require the Defendants to produce an image of the Defendants’ hard drive which would have proved whether there was independent creation, or not,” Ticktin said. He argued that it could’ve shown that they engaged in fraud to back up arguments that they completed their screenplay before Jones pitched his work. ![]() Peter Ticktin, a lawyer for Jones, said his client plans to appeal a decision by the judge barring a forensic search of the hard drive of writers James Gray and Ethan Gross. Terry Crews, Josh Lucas, David Simon, Sheryl Lee Ralph Remember André Braugher: "A True Legend"
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