'Raging Bull' Dispute Rages Past Appellate Rulings — hollywoodreporter.com

The next chapter in a very old legal fight over the Martin Scorsese-directed Raging Bull will be written soon enough, and on Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals provided a preamble of sorts. Paula Petrella is suing MGM and 20th Century Fox for alleged copyright infringement from the continued distribution of the film. Her father, Frank Petrella, wrote works that allegedly became the basis for the film about boxer Jake LaMotta. Her father passed away before the end of the original copyright term, and so the daughter has asserted dominion over renewal rights of her father's work along with alleged derivatives like the film.

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