Two artists sued NBC Universal and the creators of Heroes in U.S. district court, claiming their work had been wrongfully copied on the television show. New York-based artists Clifton Mallery and his wife Amnau Karam Eele charged in a that the show's creators based their plot line — about an artist who can paint the future — on a short story, a painting series and a short film the couple exhibited in 2004 and 2005.
The artists said in the lawsuit that two people who identified themselves as writers from NBC's Crossing Jordan, also developed by Heroes creator and executive producer Tim Kring, attended an April 2005 exhibition of their work at Hunter College in New York City. The two were believed to have taken copies of the couple's work.
The artists said their work focused on an artist who paints the future and who specifically paints the destruction of two landmark buildings in New York City. They alleged this was "strikingly similar" to the character of Isaac Mendez, whose paintings of the future depict an explosion in New York City.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
TV Tuesday: Heroes
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I have no opinion on the lawsuit; who knows -- it's possible. But I love love LOVE this show, and will tune in as long as it's on the air -- because the storyline/characters rock and because there's always a chance that Adrian Pasdar will take his shirt off again.
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