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In 1963, biographer Frank Petralla wrote a screenplay based on the life of professional boxer Jake LaMotta and assigned the rights of the screenplay to United Artists Corporation, a subsidiary of what is now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

(“MGM”). MGM released Raging Bull, the critically acclaimed film based off of the screenplay, in 1980. Approximately ten years after Frank Petralla’s death in 1981, his daughter, Paula Petralla, renewed the copyright to her father’s screenplay.

In 1998, Petralla informed MGM that continued exploitation of the Raging Bull film violated her copyright. Finally, in 2009, Petralla sued MGM seeking monetary and injunctive relief from infringement acts incurred between 2006 and 2009.

Petralla alleged that MGM continued to violate her copyright by producing and distributing Raging Bull in modern digital format.

In the instant case, since Frank Petralla did not transfer the renewal rights to MGM, his daughter