Netflix is suing the creators of ‘The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical’

The TikTok-inspired album won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear with their Grammys.
Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear with their Grammys for 'The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical', which won the event's Best Musical Theater Album for 2022. John Locher / Invision
Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear with their Grammys.
Abigail Barlow & Emily Bear with their Grammys for 'The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical', which won the event's Best Musical Theater Album for 2022. John Locher / Invision

Netflix is suing the creators of ‘The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical’

The TikTok-inspired album won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

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Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear created The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical album as an homage to the Netflix show Bridgerton. But now Netflix is suing the composers for “blatant infringement of intellectual property rights.”

Reset learns more about their case and what it could mean for fan-fiction works.

GUESTS: Cynthia Ho, director of the intellectual property program at Loyola University Chicago

Amanda Rae Prescott, freelance entertainment journalist