Netflix Resolves Copyright Spat on Origins of ‘Rez Ball’ Script

Netflix Inc., LeBron James, and other producers of the 2024 film “Rez Ball” have reached a dismissal agreement with a Montana-based filmmaker after he alleged they copied his script for another film.

Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha dismissed the suit with prejudice and vacated further proceedings in a Wednesday order for the US District Court for the Central District of California. Plaintiff Rob Grabow and his company, Paradise Valley Pictures LLC, sued Netflix and filmmakers behind the 2024 movie “about a high school basketball team on a Native American reservation in pursuit of a state championship title,” alleging copyright infringement ...