Jury unanimously finds that director did not steal elements of 2013 movie The Truth About Emanuel for his Apple TV+ series
M. Night Shyamalan was cleared of copyright infringement in the $81 million lawsuit over the Apple TV+ series Servant, with a jury unanimously ruling in favor of the director Friday.
In 2020, Italian director Francesca Gregorini sued Shyamalan and the streaming service for copyright infringement, alleging that Servant, which ran for four seasons on Apple TV+, stole elements from her 2013 movie The Truth About Emanuel.
The lawsuit went to trial last Tuesday, during which Shyamalan took the stand in his own defense. During testimony, the director said he and his co-creators had never seen nor heard of The Truth About Emanuel until the lawsuit was filed, and any similarities were “clearly, 100%, a misunderstanding,” Variety…
