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Animator Says Dreamworks Swiped Story

WEST PALM BEACH (CN) - Artist Joseph Davis, who in 1999 created and copyrighted the animated story "Animal's Night Out," about four animals who escape from the Central Park Zoo and have adventures, claims Dreamworks Animation stole the story for its 2005 movie, "Madagascar," in which four animals escape from the Central Park Zoo and have adventures.

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