Justices Wave Off Lions Gate Strip-Club TV-Show Copyright Case

Lions Gate finalized its win over a copyright suit brought by a playwright over the Starz series “P-Valley,” as the US Supreme Court declined to take up the case.

Nicole Gilbert-Daniels lost at the district and appeals courts in her lawsuit accusing Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. of ripping off her play “Soul Kittens Cabaret” with its 2020 show about a Mississippi strip club. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that there’s significant differences between the works after unprotectable stock elements are discounted. The appeals court also backed the district judge’s exclusion of ...