‘Gemini Man’ Film Copyright Suit Nixed Over Lack Of Registration

The makers of the movie “Gemini Man” won dismissal of a federal lawsuit brought by a science fiction author who alleged the film copied his book.

Kissinger Sibanda, who is also an attorney, unsuccessfully argued he didn’t need a copyright for his work “The Return to Gibraltar” because it was a “foreign book” due to his South African nationality, the opinion filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said. But the Berne convention, which lends foreign authors domestic copyright privileges, doesn’t apply to Sibanda’s book because it was published in the US by ...