‘Top Gun Maverick' Copyright Lawsuit Should Be Grounded

'It's not the plane, it's the pilot,' they say in the Tom Cruise-starring blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, and that's kind of what Paramount thinks a...

August 27, 2022
11:22 PM

'It's not the plane, it's the pilot,' they say in the Tom Cruise-starring blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, and that's kind of what Paramount thinks about a copyright lawsuit they've been slapped with over the fighter jet film. 'When the Court reviews the article and Maverick, as opposed to Plaintiffs' irrelevant and misleading purported comparison of the works, it is clear as a matter of law that Maverick does not borrow any of the article's protected expression,' says Paramount in a motion to dismiss response filed Friday in federal court in California.

Claudia Bergnaum