Seth MacFarlane. © Reuters.
Seth MacFarlane will not be prosecuted for plagiarism. In July, he was accused of living teddy bear Ted copied the character Charlie The Abusive Teddy Bear. A judge in Los Angeles has now dismissed the case.
Mark Wahlberg, protagonist in the film Ted. © anp. The production Bengal Mangle Productions made in the 90s, a sitcom about a misbehaving teddy bear. According to the creators of the series later became a big hit on the Internet and MacFarlane could not have been ignorant of the existence of Charlie. The company claimed compensation.
Meanwhile, the company is confident that MacFarlane has not committed plagiarism. ‘The character Ted was independently created by Seth MacFarlane through his own efforts and creativity and was not copied from the Charlie character’, as The Wrap read in court papers.
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