French court throws out Syriana plagarism case

A French court dismissed a suit against George Clooney and Warner Bros. filed by a French screenwriter who alleged that the movie Syriana was largely plagiarised from her script, court officials said today.

Stephanie Vergniault had claimed the oil-industry thriller borrowed “very largely” from a script she completed in 2002, but the judge in the case said two scripts were “obviously different.”