Hollywood Docket: 'Superman' Producer Jon Peters Purchased To Pay For $3.3 Mil in Sexual Harassment Trial

Vince Bucci/Getty Images Former hairstylist switched movie studio executive switched producer Jon Peters (Superman) has lost a sexual harassment claim introduced with a former assistant and it has been purchased with a jury to pay for $822,000 in lost pay plus $2.5 million in punitive damages to his accuser. Shelly Morita alleged in her own five-year-old suit that throughout the building of Superman Returns, Peters had experienced her mattress uninvited and fondled her. Jurors heard testimony how Peters withheld a $25,000 Christmas bonus until she signed a discretion agreement and just how producer of these films as Batman, Rain Guy, and Wild Wild West exerted his influence in Hollywood to maintain her from working after she quit. Peters apparently will seek an appeal. In other entertainment legal news: Bing is wishing to utilize a recent judge's decision in regards to the liability ofMP3tunes to its advantage. In the mega-fight with Viacom over alleged copyright violation online, Google has directed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal's focus on the current MP3tunes decision, where the music locker service was discovered to be mostly protected through the DMCA's safe harbor provisions. Jay-Z and Kanye are facing law suit for allegedly not clearing an example on the new album, Watch the Throne. The possibility suit originates from R&B singer Syl Manley, who based on your blog publish, is really a "veteran of copyright violation cases...[who] has been doing perfectly for themself clearing samples from his fertile catalog." An archive executive who prosecuted singer Johnny Gill for defaming her on Twitter with claims of the unauthorized leak has settled. Based on some pot statement, the record label it's still delivering Gill's new album. The U.S. Justice Department has signed off on the plan through the Producers Guild of America to approve producers. The program would be to distinguish individuals who give a full-range of services using the initials "p.g.a." in comparison to bankers, lawyers, yet others who just get generic on-screen producer credits. The program will limit the marketplace for working producers, and that's why it had been essential for the DOJ to supply a viewpoint this wasn't an antitrust breach. The estate of famous jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is suinga Manhattan jazz club known as Miles' Coffee shop for infringing his allegedly trademarked name. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner