The author further claims New Line explicitly told The Conjuring screenwriters not to read his book because the studio didn’t have the rights to it. “It is very hard to believe that a large conglomerate such as Warner Brothers, with their army of lawyers and who specializes in intellectual property rights deals, would not have found The Demonologist book or the deals related to it, or Brittle for that matter,” Henry writes, adding that the “only logical conclusion” is that defendants knew about the deals and ignored them thinking “they would never get caught.” Warren and Brittle initially gave their subsidiary motion picture rights to book publisher Prentice Hall, which later transferred them to Brittle with Warren’s agreement. Had defendants done a chain-of-title search, Brittle claims, they would have found they needed his - not Lorraine’s - permission and support to legally produce their films. “hen Lorraine Warren granted the Defendants the right to use the Warren Case Files, which the Defendants themselves repeatedly state their movies are based on, she could not have done so because she had years earlier contractually granted that exclusive right to use those same Warren cases, Warren Case Files and related materials to the Plaintiff,” writes attorney Patrick C. Venice: 25 Films That Could Be Heading to the Film Festival's 80th Anniversary Edition
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