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Queen of Swords (TV series) "copied protectable elements from [the] 'Zorro' character and 'Zorro' related works". On April 5, 2001, U.S. District Judge Collins, denied Sony's motion for a preliminary injunction, noting, among other points, "that since the copyrights in <nowiki>[</nowiki>Johnson McCulley's 1919 short story<nowiki>]</nowiki> "The Curse of Capistrano" and [the 1920 movie] "The Mark of Zorro" lapsed in 1995 or before, the character Zorro has been in the public domain." As to specific elements of "The Mask of Zorro", the judge found that any similarities between the film and the TV series' secondary characters and plot elements were insufficient to warrant an injunction. Queen