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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 16, 2010

Movie Studios Look to Prosecutors for Back-up on Copyright Cases

As the Department of Justice looks to expand its anti-piracy toolbox with help from Congress, Los Angeles prosecutors are already charging individuals with felonies for uploading copyrighted material to the Internet before release dates.


By Jean-Luc Renault


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - When an unfinished version of the film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" leaked to the Internet for download before its 2009 release, Twentieth Century Fox Film Studios fired off several lawsuits seeking hefty damages from the alleged bootleggers .


Such suits were once the entertainment industry's main line of defense against a shadowy web of copyright violators. But the &quo...

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