Segal

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SOPHIA SEGAL, Case No. 20-cv-1382-BAS-JLB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’

MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE

JASON SEGEL, et al.,

PLEADINGS

Defendants. [ECF No. 47]

17 Proceeding pro se, Plaintiff Sophia Segal (“Plaintiff”) commenced this copyright- and trademark-infringement action against Defendants Jason Segel (“Segel”), Kirsten Miller (“Miller”), The Jason Segel Company (“Jason Segel Company”), Random House LLC (“Random House”), and Oneworld Productions (“Oneworld”) on July 21, 2020. (Compl., ECF No. 1.) She filed her First Amended Complaint on October 23, 2020. (FAC, ECF No. 8.) At the heart of the dispute are two written works: Plaintiff’s screenplay entitled Otherworld (The Gateway): Episode (“Screenplay”) and Defendants’ book entitled Otherworld (“Book”). Plaintiff claims that prior to authoring and publishing the Book Defendants…