The writer of Tony Award winning Broadway play ‘Stereophonic’ has settled a lawsuit filed against him by a record producer who claimed the production ripped off his memoir.

Record producer Ken Caillat sued playwright David Adjmi earlier this year, claiming that ‘Stereophonic’ was basically an unapproved adaptation of his 2012 memoir ‘Making Rumours’, which describes his experiences engineering the Fleetwood Mac album ‘Rumours’.

A number of journalists covering ‘Stereophonic’ have noted the parallels between Fleetwood Mac and the fictional band in the play, which includes men and women, Britains and Americans, and two couples. Some have also specifically made connections between ‘Stereophonic’ and the story told in Caillat’s memoir.

When asked about that in interviews, Adjmi insists that any similarities between his play and Caillat’s book are a coincidence. However, in his lawsuit, Caillat said that claim was “simply not credible”.

If ‘Stereophonic’ was, in fact, an adaptation of ‘Making Rumours’, Adjmi would need permission from Caillat and his co-author Steven Stiefel as the owners of the copyright in the memoir. With no permission having been sought, Caillat accused Adjmi and the producers of ‘Stereophonic’ of copyright infringement.

We previously published a TW Explainer on this legal dispute here.

A court hearing was scheduled to take place last week to discuss the litigation, but before that could happen parties on both sides of the dispute told the court that they had “resolved the dispute in principle as to all claims and are working to commit their agreement to writing”.

To that end, they asked that the court hearing be postponed to 23 Dec or later, because “the parties anticipate finalising their resolution before then”. Terms of the settlement between Caillat and those involved in the play are not currently known.