In a copyright battle stemming from a Hollywood production company’s attempt to revive the “Buck Rogers” science fiction franchise, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has declined to rule on whether the sci-fi hero’s universe is public domain.
The Pennsylvania-based trust that licenses “Buck Rogers” intellectual property threatened to sue after Los Angeles-based Team Angry Filmworks announced it was in the process of developing a screenplay based on “Armageddon 2419 A.D.”—a 1928 novella by Philip Francis Nowlan in which Buck Rogers made his first appearance—without the trust’s approval.
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