Herbert Hudson, the founder of Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles, has lost a $1 million copyright infringement lawsuit against cable channel TV One.
Mr. Hudson alleged that the company and its producers had taken his idea and script for a TV show and turned it into the TV One series Belle's.
U.S. District Judge George Wu ruled that "plot and sequence of events in the two television shows are clearly different" and that the defendants "correctly point out that Roscoe’s Show is premised on an actual restaurant in Los Angeles, whereas Belle’s is premised on a purely fictional restaurant in Atlanta."
