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Gulf War reporter settles lawsuit over footage in Julia Roberts movie
Canadian reporter Arthur Kent, whose live reports on Iraq's missile attacks during the 1991 Gulf War, has settled a lawsuit against the makers of the movie Charlie Wilson’s War.
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- Published: 17:21 September 19, 2008
Toronto: Canadian reporter Arthur Kent, whose live reports on Iraq's missile attacks during the 1991 Gulf War, has settled a lawsuit against the makers of the movie Charlie Wilson's War.
Kent claimed in the lawsuit filed last April that Universal Studios violated his intellectual property rights by using without his consent, segments of a 1986 news program he made about the Soviet Union's war in Afganistan.
The segments were used in the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts movie.
Terms of the settlement are confidential, but Kent said in a statement on Friday that he is very pleased.
The 2007 film, directed by Mike Nichols, also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
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