LOS ANGELES — Shannan Lynette Wynn and the Rev. Lester Eugene Barrie claim in a federal complaint that Oprah Winfrey and Harpo Productions violated copyright and breached contract by using their pitch for a show called “Justice and Glory” in a derivative work called “Greenleaf.”
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