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HBO ‘Chernobyl’ copyright suit may be dismissed over US publication requirement

By Nick Robertson ( January 16, 2025, 19:00 GMT | Insight) -- A magistrate judge recommended Tuesday that a Ukrainian artist’s suit against HBO over the dramatization of a phone call included in the miniseries “Chernobyl” be dismissed for failure to state a claim related to where the artist’s video was first published and registered, with the judge citing Loper Bright v. Raimondo.Magistrate Judge Robert Lehrburger of the Southern District of New York recommended Tuesday that a Ukrainian artist’s copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act suit against Home Box Office be dismissed for failure to demonstrate the artist’s work is exempt from the US registration requirement....

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