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Tom Petty Documentary Stole Filmmaker’s Footage of Rock Legend, Lawsuit Claims
A Tom Petty documentary stole a filmmaker's footage, a new lawsuit claims. The director is suing Warner Music over “Somewhere You Feel Free."
A filmmaker is suing Warner Music over the 2021 Tom Petty documentary Somewhere You Feel Free, calling the movie a “brazen exploitation” that used nearly an hour of his copyrighted film footage without permission. In a lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles federal court, Martyn Atkins says he never gave the Somewhere producers consent to use hours of footage he filmed of the music legend during the 1990s but that the movie nonetheless contained “a shocking 45 minutes” of his materials. After they promised him the job of directing the upcoming documentary, Atkins says, he provided them with a detailed breakdown of where he had stored the original footage at Warner Music’s storage facility.
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