Netflix has been facing its own share of problems in recent times. While the wounds from the thrashing for the French film “Cuties” is still fresh and the “Bad Boys Billionaire” case in India going on, it has now landed in a legal soup in Turkey. Buket Uzuner, a well known novelist, has filed a case in an Istanbul court against a Netflix producer for plagiarism.
Requesting for an order from court to halt the streaming of the Netflix series ‘Atiye’ (The Gift), Uzuner claims in her petition that the series has characters that have been copied ditto, without any legal contract, from her novel ‘Toprak’ which is a part of her ‘Adventures of Defne Kaman’ series.
She has also demanded for a monetary compensation of 51,000 Turkish Liras ($6,600) with the legal interest from both the production company for the series and Netflix. In her interview to a local media house in Turkey, Uzuner said that she was in talks with a producer for the Netflix series adaptation of the Defne Kaman character for months but there was no final contract.
Streaming in India as, “The Gift”, the series follows the story of “a painter in Istanbul who embarks on a personal journey, as she unearth universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past.”
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