Editing True Lies (section)

== Plagiarism lawsuit ==
''True Lies'' and its source material ''La Totale!'' were the subject of a 2000 plagiarism lawsuit launched by French screenwriter Lucien Lambert.<ref name="telestar" /><ref name="emile" /> Lambert sued Cameron and ''La Totale!'' writer-director [[Claude Zidi]], claiming he had knowingly plagiarized from his unproduced 1981 screenplay called ''Émilie,'' about a con artist who poses as a spy in order to seduce a woman''.<ref name="telestar" /><ref name="emile" />'' 

In 2001, the court ruled against Lambert, which he appealed.<ref name="telestar" /><ref name="emile" /> In June 2004, the [[Court of Appeal of Paris]] ruled in favor of Lambert, based on new evidence.<ref name="telestar" /><ref name="emile" /> Claude Zidi was ordered to pay Lambert US$15 million (his total profit percentage for the box office receipts of ''True Lies'').<ref name="telestar" /><ref name="emile" /> Cameron was not held liable for damages, as the Court ruled he had purchased the film rights to ''La Totale!'' in good faith.<ref name="telestar" /><ref name="emile" />