According to a new lawsuit, LeBron James and Drake have been sued for stealing the rights to a movie about a segregated hockey league.
The NBA star and rapper are being sued for $10 million by Billy Hunter, the former head of the NBA players union.
READ ALSO: I Deeply Regret My Actions – Tiffany Haddish Expresses Regret Over Child Molestation Lawsuit
Billy Hunter claims he holds the exclusive legal rights to produce any movie about Canada’s old Coloured Hockey League.
Hunter claims LeBron and Drake used their production companies to go behind his back and sign a deal.
The deal involves the authors of a book their “Black Ice” hockey documentary is based on.
Hunter further claims he had a deal with the guys who wrote “Black Ice: The Lost History of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895–1925.”
The deal allegedly made Hunter the sole holder of the exclusive rights to produce a movie.
Hunter says he paid the authors, George and Darril Fosty, a combined $265,000 to lock up the movie rights.
He claims he confronted the Fosty brothers after hearing about their deal with LeBron and Drake.
He says the authors claimed the documentary did not violate their agreement with Hunter.
According to the brothers, a documentary is different than a movie.
Hunter is going after LeBron and Drake for a cut of the documentary’s profits plus $10 million in damages.
SOURCE: GhanaCelebrities.Com
This post was published on September 6, 2022 2:18 PM
Our website, www.ghanacelebrities.com, uses cookies. The website uses analytical cookies to check the behavior of visitors and to improve the website on the basis of these data. In addition, third parties place tracking cookies to show personalized advertisements. Do not want to accept all cookies?
Read More