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Judge unsticks "Bruno" Velcro lawsuit
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By Matthew Belloni
LOS ANGELES - Sacha Baron Cohen has escaped yet another lawsuit.
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a copyright claim brought by a writer who claimed that a scene in last year's "Bruno" was too similar to one in his original script called "Himbos."
John Musero filed suit in March against Baron Cohen, director Larry Charles, producers Mosaic Media Group and MRC and others claiming that a scene involving the "mayhem" that ensues when Bruno dons a Velcro suit in the 2009 fashion farce was ripped from Musero's script, which had been pitched to Mosaic and later rejected by the company.
The court ruled that the general idea of a man in a Velcro suit isn't subject to copyright and that the two works were not really that similar anyway.
"In the 'Bruno' scene, the lead character gets stuck to a curtain, crashes into a rack of clothes, gets stuck to the clothes, and tumbles out onto a runway," the seven-page decision says.
"In contrast, the 'Himbos' protagonist gets crumbled rabbit food stuck to the back of his suit that attracts a rabbit, followed by a cat, and then multiple cats that are trying to get to the rabbit. The protagonist gets stuck to a canopy in the course of fighting off the cats, gets stuck to a waiter, and then falls into a pool."
Case dismissed, although Musero can take solace that his Velcro-suit scene sounds a lot funnier than anything in "Borat."
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