The NY Times reports: Lawsuit Accuses Fox of Copying Wife-Swap Show
The British production company that created the reality series “Wife Swap” and sold it to ABC filed suit against Fox yesterday, charging that its reality series “Trading Spouses” was a “blatant and wholesale copycat” of the British show.
Via The Trademark Blog, see “Reality Check: When Will 2 TV Shows in the Same Genre Be Considered Substantially Similar Under Copyright Law?” from 21 Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 2 (Summer 2003).
