Netflix learns that careless dialogue in fiction can have serious implications. His offer to get a defamision of the defamision has recently been rejected has been rejected, meaning they have to face the Plaintiff – Georgia Chess Legend Miss Gaprindashvili – in court In September, Gaprindashvili filed a lawsuit against the streaming giant, accused the company’s defamation and “invasion of fake light privacy.” As the world’s first grandmaster in the world, Gaprindashvili was mentioned in the Netflix The Queen’s Gambit series – a period of drama about the miracle of chess In one scene during a chess match, a radio commentator said in passing “the only thing that is unusual about it, really, is the sex. And even it is not unique in Russia. There is Miss Gaprindashvili, but she is a world champion and never faced Men. “
According to the lawsuit, not only the suspicion that Gaprindashvili did not face the man at that time “Really wrong,” it was “very sexist and underestimating.” It stated that “In 1968, the year in which this episode was set, he had competed with at least 59 male chess players (28 of them simultaneously in one match), including at least ten grandparents at that time.”
Georgian Chess Player and World Chess Champion Women, Miss Gaprindashvili from the Soviet Union, imagine chess games at the International Chess Congress in London on December 30, 1964. (Photos by Stanley Sherman / Daily Express / Getty Images) Stanley Sherman Via Getty Image The event was based on 1983 novels by Walter Tevis who also mentioned Gaprindashvili. However, the part where Netflix seemed to base a little script at the time that said, “The only thing that is unusual about him is his sex; and even it is not unique in Russia. There is Miss Gaprindashvili, not to the level of this tournament, but the players are have met all of these Russian grandmasters many times before. “The Netflix version is clearly different.
Streaming providers have moved to attack the case in November, saying in his archiving that “this series is the work of fiction that reasonable viewers will not interpret the fact of delivering.” He also said that “reasonable viewers will not attract negative implications that the Plaintiff accused. However, US District Judge Virginia Philips denied the movement today, wrote that “the fact that this series is the work of fiction does not isolate Netflix from accountability for defiations if all elements of defamation.”
The verdict also stated that “at least, this line underestimates the initial performance of the Plaintiff’s reputation.” It also shows that, when submitting a motion to dismiss, “Netflix’s proof itself shows knowledge of the truth in its choice to deviate from the novel text, which states that the plaintiff has faced the Russian grandfather man many times before. ‘” Gaprindashvili is looking for at least $ 5 million damage, and for Netflix to remove the statement that he never played men from the show.
