Tolkien vs the Hobbit studio

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THE HOBBIT AND HIS JOURNEY. Martin Freeman is Bilbo Baggins. Image from The Hobbit Facebook page
The estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros, claiming that the film giant is abusing its right to merchandising linked to “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” Filed in Los Angeles weeks before the release of the first “Hobbit” movie, the lawsuit seeks at least US$80-M in damages from the studio. The late British author’s lawyers claim that Warner has breached the terms of an original agreement which allowed it to make money from the kind of physical merchandising common in the pre-Internet age. The lawsuit claims that Warner Bros and other defendants, including New Line Productions Inc, have “with increasing boldness, engaged in a continuing and escalating pattern of usurping rights to which they are not entitled.”


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