Bengal Mangle Productions launched a lawsuit against the filmmaker, Universal Pictures and producers of the movie at Media Rights Capital, claiming that "Ted" was an "unlawful copy" of its own teddy bear animation.
Bengal said in its copyright infringement lawsuit that Ted, a foul-mouthed teddy bear in the Universal movie, was too similar to Charlie the teddy bear in two different web series "Charlie the Abusive Teddy" and "Acting School Academy". Both aired in 2009 and 2010 on YouTube and other websites.
MacFarlane and Universal are yet to respond.
"Ted" grossed USD 550 million worldwide and has a sequel coming next year.
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