A judge ruled in favor of James Cameron,ย Twentieth Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment Thursday, finding that it could not be proven that they stole copyrighted ideas for the 2009 blockbuster “Avatar.”
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United States District Judge Jesse M. Furman, Southern District ofย New York, dismissed the suit by artist Roger Dean, who alleged that Cameron had stolen ideas from several of his works.
The pertinent opinion:
The works are indisputably similar insofar asย they present the natural world in a fantastical way by depicting airborne land masses.