Resumen de France: : Court finds alleged victim of screenplay piracy guilty of abuse of process against authors and producers of ‘The Artist’
A French scriptwriter claimed that he realised, when viewing the trailer for the film ‘The Artist’, released in October 2011, that the key sequences of a screenplay he had written had been used. The director had written a project for a silent cinema film in black and white, entitled ‘Timidity, la symphonie du Petit homme’ in the form of a usable version, first in 2000 and then in 2006. He had a summons for infringement of the copyright protection for the screenplay of his film issued against the author and the director of the film ‘The Artist’, which won several awards the following year at the Academy Awards and César ceremonies, and at the Cannes Film Festival, together with the film’s producers.
