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Porn Dolce Vita Beats Fellini in Court


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A company claiming to be the copyright holder for the Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita lost a court case this week against porn entrepreneur Michael Lucas and his gay adult film Michael Lucas’ La Dolce Vita.

International Media Films had attempted to prove that Lucas’s film violated the company’s copyright. But Manhattan federal judge John G. Koeltl ruled that IMF had failed “to show that it has sufficient admissible evidence from which a reasonable fact finder could conclude that it was the copyright owner of the Fellini film.”

"In fact, it is possible for the Fellini film to be in the public domain,” Koeltl found in his ruling.

Michael Lucas’ La Dolce Vita is one of the most expensive gay adult films ever produced, having cost an estimated $250,000. The film was released by Lucas Entertainment in 2006.

“I’m proud that my company won a case of such magnitude,” Michael Lucas said in a statement. “We believed strongly that we hadn’t done anything wrong even before we learned, through the meticulous, extensive and expensive fieldwork of our lawyers, that IMF doesn’t even own the movie it went to court over. Of course I can only guess at my opponents’ motivations, but if they thought that they could get a quick payday by walking all over a porn company, they were sorely mistaken. I am very proud that my company had the professionalism, the quality legal advice and the financial resources to stand up to this bullying.”

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Marcello
    Date posted: 12/26/2010 7:10:48 AM
    Hometown: Roma

    Comment:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azmqkqCMTb4

  • Name: martin
    Date posted: 4/4/2010 4:30:24 PM
    Hometown: new yourk

    Comment:

    I am happy to know that gay adult company can fight for itself and win. Michael Lucas came to US with two hundred dollars to his name and built the empire. Congratulations.

  • Name: DeeVee
    Date posted: 4/3/2010 8:37:30 PM
    Hometown: Brooklyn

    Comment:

    Oh, great. Another chance for Pouty McGee to talk about how brilliant he is.

  • Name: Shez
    Date posted: 4/3/2010 5:16:40 PM
    Hometown: NYC

    Comment:

    Too bad. I hate that ugly bitch Lucas, one of the meanest and selfish men in gay porn.

  • Name: Mike Heath
    Date posted: 4/3/2010 1:58:31 PM
    Hometown: London

    Comment:

    Federico Fellini would be both pleased and amused.

  • Name: warren
    Date posted: 4/3/2010 10:46:45 AM
    Hometown: NYC

    Comment:

    Yawn

  • Name: Paul
    Date posted: 4/2/2010 9:10:59 PM
    Hometown: Dallas

    Comment:

    Yeah, but no one ever called Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" a stultified, turgid, formulaic, wooden piece of dung.

  • Name: Troy
    Date posted: 4/2/2010 9:02:12 PM
    Hometown: MA

    Comment:

    I'm curious to know what Federico Fellini's reaction to this might have been.



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