U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear 'Raging Bull' copyright case

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to take up a copyright dispute over an early screenplay for what the writer's daughter says become the critically acclaimed boxing movie "Raging Bull." Paula Petrella, daughter of the deceased screenwriter Frank Petrella, said MGM Holdings Inc and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment had infringed the copyright of a 1963 screenplay upon which the 1980 movie was based. Fox, a subsidiary of Twenty First Century Fox Inc, is a named defendant because it has the rights to distribute MGM movies on DVD. ...



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