LOS ANGELES, CA (KNX) -- Hans Zimmer, Gladiator composer, is being sued by the Holst Foundation over the film's Oscar-nominated score.
Holst Foundation allege that the score is a copy of the late Gustav Holst's famous "Planet Suite."
If the Holst Foundation win their claim for infringement of copyright they could make millions of dollars, because sales of the film's soundtrack have gone platinum.
The music publishers who hold the copyright in Holst's works, J. Curwen & Sons state, "the same language, the same vocabulary, if not the same syntax" are used in the albums sleeve.
A Curwen spokesman says, "after a considerable period of discussion between the two parties it has become necessary to ask for the assistance of the courts."
The defense lawyer says, "Mr. Zimmer's work on Gladiator is world-renowned and is not in any sense a copy of Mars. Just listening to the two works is enough to tell any listener this claim has no merit."
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