Shonda Rhimes and Julia Quinn have also commented on the lawsuit, filed in a D.C. district court on Friday, in which Netflix alleges songwriters Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear have committed 'blatant infringement of intellectual property rights.'
“Bridgerton reflects the creative work and hard-earned success of hundreds of artists and Netflix employees,” the suit says. “Netflix owns the exclusive right to create. Barlow & Bear cannot take that right — made valuable by others’ hard work — for themselves, without permission. Yet that is exactly what they have done.”
The suit argues that the songwriting duo did this despite repeated conversations with Netflix that their works were “not authorized.” Netflix is calling Barlow and Bear’s album and performances “blatant infringement of intellectual property rights” amid an effort “to build an international brand for themselves.”
“At each step of the way, Barlow & Bear’s representatives repeatedly assured Netflix that they understood Netflix’s position and led Netflix to believe that Netflix would be consulted before Barlow & Bear took steps beyond streaming their album online in audio-only format. Barlow & Bear’s agent said that they had no interest in interfering with Netflix’s rights or in being known only as the ‘“Barlow & Bear’s representations were false,” it continues.
In the lawsuit, Netflix acknowledges that Bear and Barlow were among “countless other fans inspired by the series” who began posting musical compositions based on the show’s characters, dialogue and plot to social media platforms like TikTok following the release of its first season in December 2020.
“The show featured over a dozen songs that copied verbatim dialogue, character traits and expression, and other elements fromcharacters by Broadway actors, emoting through the performance of the songs that comprise the ‘musical,'” the suit says. “Throughout the performance, Barlow & Bear misrepresented to the audience that they were using Netflix’s BRIDGERTON trademark ‘with Permission,’ while Netflix vigorously objected.
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