The TV Academy, which filed its complaint on Tuesday, argued that the sale of an Emmy has been forbidden 'since at least as early as the 1971 Primetime Emmy Awards'
On Thursday, the United States District Court serving the Central District of California granted a temporary restraining order, requested by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, blocking Julien's Auction LLC from selling the statuettes, which Harper, who died on Aug. 30, 2019, won forOnline bidding had already begun, with projected sales prices of $6,000 to $8,000 for each statuette.
The court acknowledged that "there are serious questions as to whether Plaintiff [the TV Academy] owns or has the rights to possession of the Harper Statuettes" and that "there are serious questions going to the merits of Plaintiff's copyright infringement claim."
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