How Impressive HBO documentation Allen V. Farrow continues to cast an even darker shadow (if you can believe that) over the legacy of Woody Allen, the filmmaker’s wretched editor is threatening to take legal action against the telegraph operator. According Los Angeles Times, Skyhorse Publishing – the brand you took on Allen’s Memories The purpose of nothing after original company, Hachette, knocked down the project amid protests—You are accusing the documentary of possible copyright infringement by sampling the audiobook without permission.
“Neither the producers nor HBO ever approached Skyhorse to request permission to use excerpts from the audiobook,” Tony Lyons, president of Skyhorse, said statement provided to the establishment. “Skyhorse received secondhand information only at the end of last week that each of the four episodes of the documentary makes extensive use of excerpts from audiobooks.” Lyons continues: “[W]and we believe that the unauthorized use of the audiobook is a clear and intentional violation of the existing legal precedent and that the other episodes will also infringe if they take ownership of the audiobook in a similar way. … We will take the legal measures we deem necessary to repair our rights and Woody Allen’s rights over his intellectual property ”.
According to Skyhorse, a lawyer contacted HBO to warn against the use of audio, but HBO did not respond to the impression directly. Allen V. Farrow filmmakers However, he managed to contact The times, claiming that the audio was obtained “limited audio snippets” according to acceptable use doctrine, which “[permits] unlicensed use of copyrighted works in certain circumstances ”, according to the US Copyright Office.
Allen V. Farrow, which debuted on HBO on Sunday, he delves into Allen’s story with allegations of sexual abuse involving his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow. It also offers an in-depth look at the Farrows, who had to be examined by Allen’s devotees (while having to watch him continue to thrive in the spotlight). Allen and Soon-Yi Previn – whom Allen originally adopted with former partner Mia Farrow and later married – refused to participate and launched a statement denigrating the docuseries after airing: “These documentarians were not interested in the truth. Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their facilitators to assemble an ax job riddled with falsehoods. Woody and Soon-Yi were approached less than two months ago and only had a few days to ‘respond’. Of course, they refused to do so.“
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