The Oprah Winfrey Network prevailed again in a copyright dispute over its fictional TV show “Greenleaf” after the US Court Appeals for the Fourth Circuit court ruled Thursday that it didn’t copy the memoir of a teacher.
The two-page, nonprecedential opinion affirmed a lower court’s finding that Freda J. Day was unable to show that “Greenleaf”'s creator Craig Wright or Winfrey ever read the book “From the Green Leaf to Greener Pastures,” which Day wrote in 1999.
Under copyright law, plaintiffs must be able to show that an infringer plausibly had access to their work.
Day claimed that she mailed ...
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