Paramount Pictures has been hit with a lawsuit over the blockbuster hit, 'Top Gun: Maverick.'
June 06, 2022, 5:04 PMParamount Pictures was hit with a lawsuit Monday over the blockbuster hit, "Top Gun: Maverick."
"The iconic 1986 film all started with Paramount securing exclusive motion picture rights to Ehud Yonay's copyrighted story immediately after its publication," according to the lawsuit filed by Shosh Yonay, his widow, and Yuval Yonay, his son. "In fact, the author's story was duly credited on the derivative 1986 film, which is widely known to have been based on the story.
According to the lawsuit, Paramount acquired the copyright to Yonay’s story after it was published in 1983. In 2018, the Yonays allege they sent Paramount a notice that the copyright was terminated with an effective date of Jan. 24, 2020. They claim Paramount did not get a license to make the sequel.
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