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Author: Eriq Gardner

Date: JULY 03, 2017

Original Source: THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros. Face Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Jersey Boys’ Adaptation

An author’s widow files a new complaint in a dispute stretching back a decade.

It took nearly 10 years for a federal judge to look at Jersey Boys, the Broadway story of the 1960s pop group The Four Seasons, and declare the theatrical production to be a fair use of an unpublished biography. Now comes a new lawsuit involving the same plaintiff over Clint Eastwood’s film adaptation.

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