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‘Road House’ Copyright Battle Becomes Bare-Knuckle Brawl As Amazon, MGM And United Artists Countersue With Claims Scribe & Lawyer Lied To Feds
There's blood on the mat as the Bezos founded studio takes a big legal swing at the author of the script to the original Patrick Swayze starring flick
The copyright battle over Road House and this year’s Jake Gyllenhaal – and Conor McGregor-starring remake has turned into a full-on bare knuckles legal brawl. “Defendants’ claim of fraud on the Copyright Office is baseless deflection,” the lawyer who took on WB over Superman and Marvel over Jack Kirby told Deadline Monday. “The contradictions and falsities set forth in the Complaint are nothing but a fiction drummed up by Hill’s counsel, Marc Toberoff, to enrich them both by fabricating a fraudulent claim of copyright authorship,” the counterclaim alleges.
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