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Entertainment & Sports

Jun. 11, 2010

Court Ruling Favors Warner Bros.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that Warner Bros. Entertainment did not infringe two screenwriters' copyrights in its production of "The Last Samurai."

By Jean-Luc Renault

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a district court's ruling that Warner Bros. Entertainment did not infringe the copyrights of two screenwriters who claimed the studio copied one of their scripts to produce the film "The Last Samurai."

But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez's decision that Warner Br...

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