Warner Bros. Pictures claims plaintiffs in an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit over the 2012 film “Trouble With the Curve” used fake evidence, according to legal documents obtained by TheWrap.
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The studio said in a procedural filing in a U.S. District Court in California on Monday that Gold Glove Productions doctored pieces of evidence to make them seem like they predated the work done on “Trouble With the Curve.” Gold Glove sued Warner Bros., United Talent Agency and others in October, claiming the Clint Eastwood film ripped off screenplays and concept reels by former college baseball player Ryan A. Brooks.
In the filing, the studio said it hired a forensic investigator to examine floppy disks submitted into evidence by Gold Glove which supposedly show that credited “Curve” writer Randy Brown wrote the screenplay long after Brooks’ materials were made.
“[The investigator] found clear evidence that the date/time stamps of the disks were manipulated to present inaccurate information about date of creation,” the filing read.
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“He also found that there were codes within the data examined that relate to an operating system not on the market during the alleged dates of creation for these scripts, and that the 3M Imation 3.5 inch disks had not been put on the market during the time Mr. Brown says he created and saved scripts to this specific brand of floppy disks.”
Monday’s filing was submitted in opposition to Gold Glove’s motion for summary judgement.
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