The founder of Hollywood’s iconic Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles has lost a copyright lawsuit alleging the producers of a television show stole the idea behind a script about his soul food restaurant.
U.S. District Judge George Wu in Los Angeles threw out the copyright claims by Herbert Hudson against TV One LLC, a cable channel owned by Radio One and Comcast Corp. that targets a predominantly African American audience. TV One aired six episodes of the show Belle’s earlier this year. Hudson, who founded the restaurant in 1975, claimed that the creators of Belle’s—actor Miguel Núñez Jr. and writer/producer Edwin “Ed” Weinberger—stole his script for a television show about Roscoe’s. He sued seeking $1 million on October 10, 2012.
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