Sued Talent Manager over Access to Film & TV Scripts leaks

The plaintiff is a business that has been providing script "breakdowns" to agents for more than 30 years.

Suing over stolen ideas and scripts is common in Hollywood. In a new lawsuit, one company is attempting to protect summaries of scripts.

The plaintiff is a company called Breakdown Services Ltd., which according to a complaint filed on Friday in LA Superior Court, has been in operations for more than 30 years and works with talent agencies and management companies on a highly confidential basis. The plaintiff's clients get daily script "breakdowns," and the product is described as containing "proprietary information of value."

The defendant in the lawsuit is Adam Seid, who is alleged to have signed up for this service. Seid is now charged with giving others access to the plaintiff's website, which Breakdown Services characterizes as an attempt to set up a competing business.

The company says that he has been giving actors, actresses and other individual an account number and password to access the Breakdown website: http://www.breakdownservices.com/

To prevent the possibility that someone could use the service to describe what casting opportunities are out there in the entertainment industry, Breakdown Services is now going to court against Seid.

According to the lawsuit, Seid entered into a written agreement in October, 2009. For monthly payments, Seid would get access to the script summaries. He allegedly also agreed to not copy what he saw or use it to compete against the company.

Read Full Lawsuit here...http://www.scribd.com/doc/131034256/Bc-503107

"Unless restrained by this Court," says the plaintiff, "Defendants will continue to improperly obtain Plaintiff's breakdown as a result of which the public generally, and those members of the public in the entertainment industry in particular, will be misled and deceived into believing that they may obtain the identical breakdowns from defendants, and not through contractual relationships with Plaintiff, and/or that the identical breakdowns may be obtained for a lessor price, and/or that the identical breakdowns may be obtained without having to accept Plaintiff's confidentiality agreement, all to the irreparable damage and injury of Plaintiff's business and goodwill."

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