The Universal vs Smash Porn Company "50 Shades" infringement suit has settled!

[heidi8]

We've been blogging about it on a new tumblr at fyeahcopyright, and found out this morning that the case has settled!

Our analysis of the claims Smash made in trying to defend their actions is here.
An update about the settlement is here.
More thoughts on disclaimers are hereThe best bit from all of this, we think, has been Universal saying this

Comments

[johnnypenn]

I haven't even heard of this before now, only that 50 shades of crappy writing was going to become a horrible and crappy movie.
Wow. And here I thought all they had to do was wave the contract James signed that gave them the rights to make the book into a movie.