Seth MacFarlane Hit With Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Ted’

Company claims MacFarlane took the idea of a vulgar teddy bear from it

Seth MacFarlane has a bear of a lawsuit on his hands.

The “Family Guy” honcho has been hit with a lawsuit by a production company that claims his 2012 big-screen comedy “Ted” was based on a web series.

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In the suit, filed in U.S. district court in central California on Tuesday, Bengal Mangle Productions says that it created a screenplay, “Acting School Academy” in 2008 that featured a character named Charlie, “a teddy bear who lives in a human, adult world with all human friends.

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