Jerry Seinfeld has prevailed in a lawsuit challenging who created ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee
. On Monday, a federal judge ruled that Christian Charles waited too long to go to court.
Charles worked with Seinfeld on several projects dating all the way back to 1994 and is also the credited director for the pilot of According tothat Charles filed in New York federal court, the genesis of the show dates to a conversation between himself and Seinfeld in 2011. Seinfeld allegedly explained that he was under pressure to come up with something new and brought up an idea about comedians driving in a car to a coffee place and just "chatting.
Later, Charles says that Seinfeld's reps were thrilled by what they saw, but as he began preparing new episodes, the two got into a dispute about compensation. Seinfeld allegedly became upset that Charles wanted more than a directing fee on a "work-for-hire" basis, and according to the complaint, called him "ungrateful.".
The judge refuses to see Charles' attempt to distinguish a controversy over "authorship" with one over "ownership." "Even if all inferences are drawn in favor of Charles, a reasonably diligent plaintiff would have understood that Seinfeld was repudiating any claim of ownership that Charles may have," she writes. "That Seinfeld did not expressly claim ownership for himself during these conversations does not matter. It is sufficient that Charles's claim was rejected."
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