by Kandiss Edwards
October 8, 2025
The choice marks the tip of Gilbert-Daniels’s journey to show copyright infringement.
P-Valley author and producer, Katori Corridor, is breaking her silence after the U.S. Supreme Court docket refused to listen to her copyright infringement case introduced by Dr. Nicole “Nicci” Gilbert-Daniels.
This closes the years-long authorized battle over claims that Corridor’s hit sequence P-Valley copied Gilbert-Daniels’s unique work. Gilbert-Daniels took her case to the Supreme Court docket in April 2025. She argued that decrease courts didn’t correctly assess the “qualitative worth” of artistic expression in works centering on Black ladies’s tales. The excessive court docket declined to listen to the attraction, Docket 24-1251, with out remark.
In response to the Supreme Court docket’s determination, P-Valley creator Corridor launched a press release on Instagram. Corridor has stated little or no since Gilbert-Daniels’s preliminary submitting. She is now detailing the “weak” methods she bared her “artistic course of” in an try and confirm the originality of P-Valley.
“I disclosed that e mail together with over 16,000 pages–numerous drafts of the play, tv pitches and coverings, and even an early pilot of P-VALLEY–all proof of my unbiased creation,” Corridor wrote.
Corridor asserts the ordeal has left her bruised each personally and professionally. But, she holds no unwell will towards Gilbert-Daniels.
“Whereas this lengthy and arduous ordeal has examined my fame and my endurance, I want the plaintiff peace. I’m so grateful the reality has prevailed, permitting me to lastly shut this tough chapter.”
Moreover, Gilbert-Daniels posted a press release on Instagram. The producer asserted that the rejection was attributable to a damaged system that favored highly effective Hollywood studios.
“By declining to listen to this case, the Court docket missed an opportunity to deal with a troubling sample: the near-automatic dismissal of artistic plaintiffs’ claims earlier than a jury ever hears them. Hollywood has gained 99% of copyright circumstances over the previous 20 years, not as a result of each artist was fallacious, however as a result of the system is constructed to favor the highly effective.”
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