A filmmaker says Netflix ripped off his movie idea in its new film “Rez Ball” by copying not only the general premise, but also a “striking and substantial amount of concrete expressive elements” from the filmmaker’s copyrighted script. The filmmaker says he confidentially shared his script “The Gift of the Game,” a movie about Native American basketball players, to people connected to the director of the Netflix movie, and named “Rez Ball” producer and basketball superstar LeBron James among the defendants.
Read the complaint here.
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