MGM Nailed with Copyright Theft Suit over "Barbershop" Movie Franchise
Submitted by Publisher on Tue, 03/22/2005 - 19:50.
12/31/1969 - 17:00
Entertainment and business attorney Paul N. Philips, counsel to screenwriter Thomas
Jay Winston Johnson, announced today the filing of a lawsuit against
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and others related to what he describes as the
outrageous theft of his client’s intellectual property.
That property, Philips says, was converted into MGM’s “Barbershop
