Nikki Finke reports that Penske Media Corporation–parent company of Movieline, TVLine and Deadline (where Finke writes)–has filed suit against Prometheus Global Media LLC, owner and operator of The Hollywood Reporter. Janice Min, what hath you wrought? Specifically, Penske’s suit claims “outright theft of intellectual property, including but not limited to whole articles, content, software, source code and designs.”
Surely it’s all a misunderstanding! Like that book report you accidentally plagiarized in middle school. Nope, not according to Penske, who claims THR didn’t even attempt to cover up its misdoings: “In fact, THR was so incompetent and careless in its theft, that it actually copied the original source code labels exactly as they existed on TVLine, and did not even attempt to rename them.” Oh snap! You can read the full complaint over at Deadline.
