Tyler Perry Getting Sued for Stealing Diary Movie

Tyler Perry is being sued over the film script for “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” in a copyright infringement case. The plaintiff, Donna West, contends that the script for the film was "copied largely from the plaintiff's copyrighted script."
Perry’s lawyer say that "the materials claimed to have been copied from the plaintiff's work are not protected by copyright law because they are ideas, facts, conventions or clichés of story-telling, script-writing or movie-making." They add, "defendants were not aware and had no reason to believe that their acts constituted an infringement of copyright" because the "defendants' motion picture was created independently of the plaintiff's allegedly copyrighted script."
The court papers also claim Ms. West has no recourse under the Copyright Act because of her "failure to register her work prior to the alleged infringement." Source
So they’re basically saying, “Yea we stole yo ish heifa! But since yo udidn’t handle yo bidness right you can’t sue us.”

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