Judge Rules ‘We Are Marshall’ Not a Ripoff, at Least Not Legally Talking
October 21, 2008
Filed under: Drama, Sports, Warner Brothers, Celebrities and Controversy, Family Films
You might have thought that We Are Marshall seemed a lot like every other Inspiring Sports Drama you’d ever seen, but a pair of producers recently sought to prove in a court of law that it resembled a specific film — one they’d made six years earlier.
That film, Ashes to Glory: The Tragedy and Triumph of Marshall Football (which IMDB has never heard of), was a documentary about the real-life events depicted in We Are Marshall. The doc’s producers, Deborah Novak and John Witek, sued Warner Bros. for copyright infringement, fraud, and breach of contract, but a U.S. district court judge has ruled against them.
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