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Netflix and ‘Stranger Things’ creators being sued over alleged copyright infringement

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Netflix and the creators of Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer, are being sued by a company that says the idea for the hit show was stolen from a screenplay called Totem.A lawsuit filed by Irish Rover Entertainment on Wednesday (July 15) in California federal court claims that Stranger Things has copied a number of things from Totem, a screenplay written by Jeffrey Kennedy (via TheWrap).The suit alleges that the Netflix show lifted the “plot, sequence, characters, theme, dialogue, mood, and setting, as well as copyrighted concept art” from Totem.The idea for Totem came following the death of Kennedy’s childhood friend, Clint Osthimer, who suffered from epilepsy.“During their childhood together in rural Indiana,” the lawsuit reads,.

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