COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST SEACREST
Charges against American TV/radio personality RYAN SEACREST accusing him of stealing the idea for his new reality show from a four-year-old Turkish series have been dropped.
The last-minute lawsuit filed on Monday (15Dec08) in Manhattan federal court alleged Seacrest and NBC network ripped off the idea for his new series Momma’s Boys from Perfect Bride, which debuted in Turkey in 2004.
The series, which follows bachelors and their mums as they struggle to find a suitable bride for their boys, was "willfully appropriated" according to the suit, filed by Luftu Murat Uckardesler.
Uckardesler sought to bar Seacrest’s show from TV for copyright and trademark infringement.
Momma’s Boys premiered in the U.S. on Tuesday (16Dec08) after Judge George Daniels said the producers had waited too long to file their case, according to the New York Post.
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