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Article: Two designers sue Disney, NBC over 'Project Runway' idea
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- December 7, 2005
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AP Worldstream
12-07-2005
Dateline: NEW YORK
Two New York fashion designers sued Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, supermodel Heidi Klum and others, claiming they originally developed the idea for what became the television show "Project Runway."
In a copyright lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in the Southern District of New York, designers Cynthia Rodriguez and Elizabeth Marie Anne Zwiebach claim they provided a 40-page outline for a reality show they were interested in developing titled "American Runway" to Klum's agents after first approaching the agents with the idea in July 2003.
The designers claim they had previously registered and copyrighted the work with the Writer's Guild of ...