that have existed for nearly 30 years for the public to see in rap songs, lawsuits, Plaintiff’s own Memoir, and now, the Film,” states the motion. “Nothing in that Dialogue changes the fundamental nature of what Plaintiff is challenging: the creative depiction, in a docudrama, of accusations, controversies and hard feelings between Plaintiff and N.W.A.
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“Artists and movie studios should be able to depict public controversies in creative works without risk of liability,” states the motion to strike. Judge Knocks Out Key Claim in 'Straight Outta Compton' Lawsuitĭefendants claim most of Heller’s beef with the film is centered on dialogue that expresses opinion or assessment of his performance as a business manager. The infamous lobster scene, defendants argue, was a protected dramatization based on previous statements Heller made that he “dined on lobster so often at The Palm restaurant in Los Angeles that they painted his caricature on the wall and called it ‘Palm Lobster #1 With a Bullet.'”
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“The object is to destroy Plaintiff’s exemplary professional reputation, to make him the object of ridicule, hatred, and personal attack, and to negatively influence other persons and entities an dissuade them from doing business with Plaintiff in the future,” Heller claims. “What don’t make sense is Eazy and Jerry eating lobster and we eating Fatburger,” he says in the film. The most fact-specific example concerns Ice Cube’s line about food that paints a picture of Heller living in luxury while N.W.A. Much of the referenced dialogue is profane, but doesn’t necessarily have an obvious connection to his claims. His amended complaint, filed in April, adds references to what he says are related scenes in the movie. Heller says the film is “littered with false statements” about him stealing money, inducing members to sign unfavorable contracts and failing to pay the group’s bills. What Lawsuits Over N.W.A, TLC Biopics Say About the Role of Artist Managers It did not purport to be some exposé of Plaintiff’s conduct it merely was the creative telling of this very public story.” and Plaintiff, their manager, concerning their business affairs and hard feelings. “It depicted an indisputably public and longstanding controversy between members of N.W.A. “This consideration of ‘the work as a whole’ includes the Film’s dramatic depiction, through a docudrama, of controversial and ambiguous relationships between public figures like Plaintiff and the members of N.W.A.” states Universal’s motion to strike filed Wednesday. Now NBCUniversal’s attorneys are asking the court to take judicial notice of the film in its entirety, to put the statements Heller claims are defamatory into context. Fitzgerald i nstructed him to tie specific lines in the film to his accusations of defamation. So after the real-life Jerry Heller sued over his portrayal as N.W.A.’s former manager in Straight Outta Compton, U.S. Being a “bad guy” in a film isn’t sufficient grounds for a defamation lawsuit.
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