WISH UPON A STAR LAWSUIT
NEW: Owner of `Wish Upon a Star' song loses Fox lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) A judge has tossed out a lawsuit accusing the
makers of an animated television show of illegally twisting the
song `When You Wish Upon a Star' into an anti-Semitic ballad.
Manhattan federal Judge Deborah Batts says Twentieth Century Fox
Film Corp., Fox Broadcasting Co. and the Cartoon Network were
within their rights to spoof the song in an episode of "The Family
Guy." The episode first aired in 2003.
Music publishing house Bourne Co. sued the companies to try to
stop distribution of the episode. It was titled "When You Wish
Upon a Weinstein" and relied on the premise that the main
character had to hire a Jewish person to care for his family
finances.
The judge said Bourne's copyright does not protect it from
parody.