“Warner Brothers alleges that Innovative willfully ignored and then infringed upon its exclusive copyright protected rights (i.e., reproduction, distribution and performance) which has resulted in ‘irreparable harm’ to Warner Brothers,” writes Henry. own legal arguments for disgorgement in its screener piracy lawsuit against Innovative Artists.

In a twist of fate, Brittle’s amended complaint uses Warner Bros. “Defendants have built a billion-dollar franchise based on rights they knew they did not possess,” Henry writes. “They ignored this ‘inconvenient’ fact and willfully proceeded anyway.”īrittle is now seeking nearly a billion consisting of disgorgement of defendants’ profits and trebled damages from the alleged conspiracy - plus any profits from the stock premium that AT&T is paying Time Warner in their merger that is attributable to the franchise and an injunction to stop the release of Annabelle 2 and to prevent any other future films connected to the Warrens from being made. The author further claims New Line explicitly told The Conjuring screenwriters not to read his book because the studio didn’t have the rights to it. “It is very hard to believe that a large conglomerate such as Warner Brothers, with their army of lawyers and who specializes in intellectual property rights deals, would not have found The Demonologist book or the deals related to it, or Brittle for that matter,” Henry writes, adding that the “only logical conclusion” is that defendants knew about the deals and ignored them thinking “they would never get caught.” Warren and Brittle initially gave their subsidiary motion picture rights to book publisher Prentice Hall, which later transferred them to Brittle with Warren’s agreement.

Had defendants done a chain-of-title search, Brittle claims, they would have found they needed his - not Lorraine’s - permission and support to legally produce their films. “hen Lorraine Warren granted the Defendants the right to use the Warren Case Files, which the Defendants themselves repeatedly state their movies are based on, she could not have done so because she had years earlier contractually granted that exclusive right to use those same Warren cases, Warren Case Files and related materials to the Plaintiff,” writes attorney Patrick C. With Nate Silver Exiting, ABC News Finds Its Next Data Guru in G.

The Demonologist by Gerald Brittle