Journalist’s ‘Narcos’ Copyright Claims Mostly Dismissed

A journalist who wrote a memoir about her affair with Pablo Escobar mostly couldn’t prove that the makers of the hit Netflix show “Narcos” infringed her copyrights by caricaturizing her and duplicating her experiences.

Most of the journalist’s claims didn’t involve copyright-eligible expression, although it was plausible that a scene involving an intimate encounter with Pablo Escobar and a revolver was protectable, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida said May 24.

Journalist Virginia Vallejo wrote Amando a Pablo, Odiando a Escobar, a memoir that describes her relationship with drug lord Pablo Escobar. The first season of ...