{"id":165077,"date":"2021-02-23T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=165077"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:44:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:44:59","slug":"woody-allens-publisher-threatens-to-sue-hbo-over-disturbing-new-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woody-allens-publisher-threatens-to-sue-hbo-over-disturbing-new-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen\u2019s Publisher Threatens To Sue HBO Over Disturbing New Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoody-allens-publisher-threatens-to-sue-hbo-over-disturbing-new-documentary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=165077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The imprint behind director Woody Allen\u2019s 2020 memoir is reportedly considering a lawsuit against HBO over its new documentary series, \u201cAllen v. Farrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four-part series debuted on Sunday on HBO and reportedly demonstrates the filmmaker&#8217;s years of child abuse. Skyhorse Publishing is claiming that the filmmakers sampled the audio version of Allen&#8217;s book, &#8220;Apropos of Nothing,&#8221; without their permission.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Skyhorse, Tony Lyons, said in a statement on Monday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2021-02-22\/woody-allen-documentary-memoir-lawsuit-skyhorse\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a>, \u201cNeither the producers nor HBO ever approached Skyhorse to request permission to use excerpts from the audiobook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lyons added, \u201cSkyhorse received information second hand only at the very end of last week that each of the documentary\u2019s four episodes makes extensive use of audiobook excerpts &#8230; [W]e believe that its unauthorized use of the audiobook is clear, willful infringement under existing legal precedent, and that the other episodes will infringe, too, if they appropriate the audiobook in a similar manner. &#8230; We will take the legal action we deem necessary to redress our and Woody Allen\u2019s rights in his intellectual property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the filmmakers who created \u201cAllen v. Farrow\u201d told The Times in a statement via HBO that they \u201clegally used limited audio excerpts from Woody Allen\u2019s memoir in the series under the Fair Use doctrine,\u201d which according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/fair-use\/more-info.html\">United States Copyright Office,<\/a> \u201cpromotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The series reportedly depicts Woody Allen sexual abusing his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hatchet-job-woody-allen-slams-docuseries-about-his-alleged-abuse-of-adopted-daughter\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reports,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>A never-before-seen 1992 home video is reportedly part of the docuseries; in it, Dylan Farrow is allegedly heard as a seven-year-old, telling her mother that Allen \u201ctouched her private parts\u201d as he told her, \u201c\u2019Do not move, I have to do this.\u201d The young girl then poignantly tells her mother, \u201cI didn\u2019t want him to do it, mama. I didn\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The series will \u201cfeature recordings that Mia secretly made of her phone conversations with Allen, including one in which she tells him Dylan \u2018is not alright\u2019 after the alleged incident,\u201d the Daily Mail reported.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Allen and Mia Farrow are no longer together, having broken up after she discovered Allen was having an affair with her adopted daughter from a previous marriage, Soon-Yi Previn. Previn was 21 when she was having an affair with Allen, 55.<\/p>\n<p>Soon-Yi Previn and Allen are now married, and released a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2021-02-22\/woody-allen-hbo-documentary-response-soon-yi-previn\">statement<\/a> on Sunday, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese documentarians had no interest in the truth. Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods. Woody and Soon-Yi were approached less than two months ago and given only a matter of days \u2018to respond.\u2019 Of course, they declined to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs has been known for decades, these allegations are categorically false,\u201d the pair continued. \u201cMultiple agencies investigated them at the time and found that, whatever Dylan Farrow may have been led to believe, absolutely no abuse had ever taken place. It is sadly unsurprising that the network to air this is HBO \u2014 which has a standing production deal and business relationship with Ronan Farrow. While this shoddy hit piece may gain attention, it does not change the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2017 op-ed for The Times, Dylan Farrow wrote, \u201cIt is a testament to Allen\u2019s public relations team and his lawyers that few know these simple facts. It also speaks to the forces that have historically protected men like Allen: the money and power deployed to make the simple complicated, to massage the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen&#8217;s memoir was released in March 2020 and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2020-03-23\/woody-allen-memoir-released\">reportedly<\/a> picked up by Skyhorse after Hachette Book Group canceled its release.<\/p>\n<p>Hachette allegedly decided to cancel Allen&#8217;s book after receiving pressure from Ronan Farrow, investigative journalist and Allen&#8217;s son. In 2019, Hachette published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/11\/books\/review-catch-kill-ronan-farrow-harvey-weinstein.html\">&#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221;<\/a> by Ronan Farrow, which details the writer&#8217;s journey of uncovering stories about Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s own decades of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>After securing a critical interview in the Weinstein investigation, Ronan Farrow reportedly solicited advice on how to conduct himself from his adopted sister, Dylan, who had already been accusing Allen of abuse for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, this is the worst part,\u201d Dylan told him, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/11\/books\/review-catch-kill-ronan-farrow-harvey-weinstein.html\">The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cThe considering. The waiting for the story.\u201d She continued: \u201cIf you get this, don\u2019t let it go, O.K.?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The imprint behind director Woody Allen\u2019s 2020 memoir is reportedly considering a lawsuit against HBO over its new documentary series, \u201cAllen v. 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