Gottlieb Development LLC v. Paramount Pictures Corp.

OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

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In the motion picture “What Women Want,” released by defendant Paramount Pictures Corporation (“Paramount”) in 2000, Mel Gibson plays an advertising executive who acquires the ability to “hear” what women are thinking. In one scene, Gibson and his co-star Helen Hunt brainstorm with other employees to develop ideas for marketing certain consumer products to women. At various points during the scene, as shown, for example, in the photograph above, a pinball machine-— the “Silver Slugger” — appears in the background. The Silver Slugger is distributed by…