Court Says Syriana Was Not Plagiarized
Warner Brothers, George Clooney’s production company Section Eight and writer-director Stephen Gaghan have been cleared in a case of plagiarism in a Paris court, E! Online reports.
Stephanie Vergniault was seeking $2.5 million, claiming that the film “Syriana” borrowed “largely” from a script she had written in 2002.
The judge in the case said although the two scripts were similar ? both dealt with the CIA and the interest of oil in the Persian Gulf ? they were two different works, and overlap of the two was purely coincidental.
Vergniault could also not prove that she had sent her script to a Canadian production company, which allegedly has ties to Warner Brothers.
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