‘Disturbia’ Doesn’t Copy ‘Rear Window,’ Judge Rules
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“Disturbia,” the 2007 film made by Steven Spielberg’s production company, didn’t infringe the copyright of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” or the short story that the older movie was based on, a New York judge ruled.
“Disturbia” isn’t “substantially similar” to the murder mystery “Rear Window,” U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain said in a ruling yesterday in federal court in Manhattan.