Write & wrong?

More of writers on strike: Writer submits a story. It’s later stolen. The denying studio says, “Sue us!” Broke writer fades away. Like Hollywood’s “Casting Couch” before the “Me Too” taboo, work stolen is not Once Upon a Time.

Writer Jack Piuggi of Flipp Productions claims he has hours of legally admissible audio/video footage. His lawyer Robert Hantman — who has sued Steven Seagal, Magic Johnson, Don King, Danny DeVito — has filed a David vs. Goliath lawsuit in US District Court, Southern District of New York, alleging Piuggi’s “Instafamous” osmosed into cable shows “Fake Famous” and “FBoy Island.”

Piuggi says it goes something like this: Funneling ideas they’ve heard, independent contractors filing 1099s remain work-for-hires not house employees. Studios thus say, “We were unaware of this person’s actions. They don’t work for the company. We were never informed.” Or, “This is a parallel idea — the term for a supposed coincidence that more than one person has that same idea and thus cannot be accused of theft.”

It’s three card monte.

Piuggi claims: “I [can] prove that these ideas were mine. I even suggested actors. Garrett Morosky, later cast to star in one of these shows, told me: ‘We know they stole your show.’ I recorded that, too.”.