top guns

sue 起诉copyright 版权；著作权breach 违反；违背

The family of the Israeli writer whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun is suing film studio Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over its sequel.

infringement [ɪnˈfrɪndʒmənt] 侵权；(对他人权利等的)侵犯，侵害；(对法律、规则等的)违反，违背sequel [ˈsiːkwəl] 续集

They claim the studio did not have the rights to Ehud Yonay's 1983 story "Top Guns" when it released the sequel Top Gun: Maverick last month.

claim 声称right to 对某事物的权利release 发布maverick [ˈmævərɪk] 持不同意见者；独行其是者；言行与众不同者

The film earned $548m (£438m) globally in its first 10 days of release.

Paramount says the claim was "without merit" and vowed to contest it.

without merit 无价值的vow to do 发誓…

Top Gun: Maverick sees Cruise reprise his role as US navy pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell from the original 1986 film.

reprise [rɪˈpriːz]重演；重奏

It had the fourth biggest opening weekend of any film in the Covid-era, behind the best-selling Spider-Man: No Way Home, second-place Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and then The Batman.

opening 首映

The lawsuit - filed on Monday at the Los Angeles federal court by Shosh and Yuval Yonay, Ehud's widow and son - alleges that Paramount failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud's magazine article after it was terminated under the US Copyright Act.

file a lawsuit against 起诉…widow 寡妇；遗孀allege [əˈledʒ] 宣称；(未提出证据)断言，指称，声称fail to 未能terminate 终止

They are seeking unspecified damages from the film studio, including profits from Top Gun: Maverick.

unspecified 未说明的；不明确的

According to the lawsuit, Paramount's Top Gun franchise would not have existed without Ehud's "literary efforts and evocative prose and narrative".

franchise 公司授予的)特许经销权；(国家授予的)特别经营权，特许would not have existed without 没有…的情况下，…本不可能存在literary 文学作品的evocative 唤起的；引起记忆的；唤起感情prose 散文narrative 叙述

The lawsuit said that in 2018, the Yonays informed Paramount that its rights to Ehud's article would be terminated two years later.

inform 通知

Paramount said in a statement: "These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously."

vigorous [ˈvɪɡərəs] 充满活力的；果断的；精力充沛的；强壮的；强健的