'Sopranos' Creator Accused of Stealing Ideas
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David Chase was in federal court Wednesday to defend his role in creating the Emmy-winning HBO mob drama, "The Sopranos."  The case was brought by a former New Jersey municipal court judge who claims his ideas helped Chase come up with the plot for t...
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Therapists, we've long known, are among the biggest fans of "The Sopranos."
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Producers of the ABC reality series  "Wife Swap" sued Fox television on Wednesday for copyright  infringement, accusing the rival network of ripping off their  show with the "virtually identical" Fox show "Trading Spouses."
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The Sopranos' creator said he felt sick when he learned he was being sued by an ex-judge over the series.
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LOS ANGELES  - Steven Schirripa, whose "Sopranos" character was whacked in one of the show's final episodes this year, is hosting a new cooking-themed series on Rainbow Media's free on-demand network Lifeskool.
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Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spoofed the final episode of the hit series "The Sopranos" in a video telling supporters the winning anthem for her 2008 presidential campaign was Celine Dion's "You and I."
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NEWARK, N.J.  &#151; "Sopranos" fans who thought the series' open-ended conclusion was a setup for a movie may be in for disappointment: series creator David Chase says it isn't so.
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By TIM CUPRISIN  Back in 2001, NBC's then-president, Bob Wright, raised the alarm about "The Sopranos" in a mass mailing to TV folks inside and outside his network.
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A programmer has rebutted an accusation that he contributed proprietary software to an open-source project called Mambo, while his accuser has moderated his legal threats.
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A television show that  dramatizes federal investigations is now finding itself at the  center of a real-life FBI probe into copyright infringement.
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Television talk show host Maury Povich hasn't always been a big fan of YouTube Inc. because the online video sharing pioneer frequently displays unauthorized clips from his copyrighted program.
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Indy filmmaker said Viacom used his footage in a TV show and cried foul when the filmmaker responded by posting Viacom's clip featuring his work on YouTube. Is this hypocrisy?
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A former job applicant is suing the CW television network in Los Angeles for the alleged plagiarism of her novel.  Staci Robinson alleges that an executive at Kelsey Grammer's production company lifted her unpublished work and turned it into the new series The Game.
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A Russian mob boss, fed up with the "unrealistic mafia shows" usually shown on television has taken matters into his own hands by creating his own series.
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A Russian mob boss fed up with "unrealistic mafia shows" has written his own TV series - starring himself.  Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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Federal authorities have charged a Chicago man with copyright violations for allegedly uploading several episodes of Fox's "24" on the Internet before the show's season premiere earlier this year.
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A Feb. 18 story about top advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton accusing Democratic rival Barack Obama of plagiarism included a reference to a January report by The Associated Press that noted examples of Obama borrowing ideas and speech points from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, often without attribution.