Spielberg, Paramount, Sued Over “Disturbia”

The estate of Sheldon Abend is suing Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks, and Paramount Pictures over the film Disturbia, which it claims infringed its rights in a short story written by the noir author Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich, who wrote under the name Cornell Woolrich and William Irish. The story, “It Had to be Murder,” also called “Murder From a Fixed Viewpoint,” or “Murder From a Fixed Perspective,” published in 1942, was made into the film Rear Window, which starred Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, in 1954. Read more here and here.