An appeal by a writer requesting 1.2 billion yen as a plagiarism for "Zero Gravity" will be dismissed

The 2013 SF movie "Directed by Alfonso Cualon"Zero · Gravity"Was the 86th Academy Award winning all seven sectors including the director's award, and also the box office revenue exceeded 3 billion yen in Japan. Given that Zero Gravity is plagiarism of his work, the best selling authorTess JeritzenIn April 2014, the company filed suit against Warner Bros., the production company, but the court dismissed his request.

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Mr. Jeritzen is an American female writer mainly engaged in medical thriller and suspense thriller,Do not steal my heart"ButNero Wolf PrizeYaEdgar Award feature length awardIt is a bestseller who has received a prestigious award such as. Books written from the perspective of former doctor have been translated in over 40 countries including Japan.


There is a work called "Gravity" in Mr. Jeritzen's book, and he said that "Zero Gravity is based on Gravity" and damages compensation of 10 million dollars (about 1.18 billion yen) against Warner Bros. We tried to seek. Mr. Jeritzen's "Gravity" is a female doctor dispatched to the space station has encountered numerous troubles, with all the other crews died, one alone will survive to the earth, Mr. Jeritzen said "The story of a novel It closely resembles a movie. "

According to Mr. Jeritzen, the scene that "space debris collides with the space station" appearing at the beginning of the movie is also based on scenes with novels. When appealing Warner Brothers, Mr. Jeritzen sold the movie-making right of the novel "Gravity" to a production company called Katja later owned by New Line Cinema, and the movie of 500,000 dollars (about 59 million yen) I revealed that I have signed a contract to receive 2.5% of net profit.


The new line cinema which owned Katja was acquired by Warner Bros. in 2008 and in the trial Warner Brothers took over the contract and the movie making rights tied between Katja and Jeritzen at the time of acquisition It was thought that whether or not it becomes a point of issue.

However, the judge said that there is insufficient evidence that "Gravity's contract and cinematizing rights were appropriately handed over from Katja to New Line Cinema and from New Line Cinema to Warner Bros." I dismiss Mr. Jeritzen's appeal.

Mr. Jeritzen said on his official blog that "If the large company acquires a company that has the right to make a movie, it turns out that the agreement the writer had had the possibility of being forbidden In addition, the company is able to produce a movie based on the film making rights owned by the acquired company, in that case there is no need to pay compensation for writers who wrote the work In other words, the contract with Hollywood is not worth at all ", warned other writers.

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However, the judge has given Mr. Jeritzen 20 days to gather new evidence. Mr. Jeritzen says, "We are committed to collecting evidence together with lawyers to protect other writers," and if the new evidence is submitted, the judgment may be overturned.