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‘This Is Spinal Tap’ creators and StudioCanal settle rights dispute
This Is Spinal Tap have settled a longstanding rights despite with StudioCanal.According to The Hollywood Reporter, lawyers for Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest, as well as French media group Vivendi and its StudioCanal division, told a California federal court that they had finally achieved settlement.Shearer filed a suit back in 2016 alleging that despite decades of cult success, the creatives had received just $81 in merchandising income and $98 in musical sales income to show for their work on the 1984 mockumentary.The group alleged “Hollywood accounting” sins, Vivendi bungling trademark rights, and more. They demanded hundreds of millions in damages and hoped to reclaim Spinal Tap by exercising
