An appellate ruling involving the 2003 Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai clarified for the first time in 40 years how a writer of a finished script with copyrightable elements can successfully bring a contract claim against a studio for stealing his or her idea.
The June 9 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit applied existing case law dating to the 1960s, said Gregory Sater, a partner at Los Angeles-based Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff, who frequently handles idea-submission claims and was not involved in the case.
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