Catholic Church to Columbia Pictures: You Break Jesus You Buy Him
Lawyers for the Catholic Church in Brazil are not happy with Columbia Pictures. The complaint: Columbia’s depiction of the destruction of Rio’s famous “Christ the Redeemer” statue in the studio’s 2009 disaster film “2012.”
Jesus, as it turns out, is copyrighted in Brazil.
THR, Esq. has the story:
Brazil uses a variation on U.S. copyright law, granting copyright to the author of a work until his death, then to his estate or heirs for another 70 years. Christ the Redeemer was created in 1931 by French artist Paul Landowski on commission from the Rio archdiocese.
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