The production company that owns the rights to the pornographic film Deep Throat filed a lawsuit to block distribution of the upcoming movie Lovelace, a biography of the adult film’s star.

Arrow Productions Ltd, the owner of the rights to the 1972 film, filed a $10 million copyright lawsuit in the US District Court in Manhattan against the producers of the movie and its distributor, The Weinstein Company.

Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried, chronicles the formative years of porn star Linda Lovelace (born Linda Boreman), her abusive marriage to Chuck Traynor, played by Peter Sarsgaard, and how she came to work on Deep Throat.

The lawsuit contends that the production com-pany used more than five minutes of footage from Deep Throat without a licence or permission.

The title Lovelace gets its market appeal entirely from the cultural cachet of the trademarked name Linda Lovelace, Arrow Productions said.

“Defendants use that title without licence or permission,” the lawsuit said.

Lovelace premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It is set to be released in theatres and available to video on demand customers tomorrow.

Lovelace, who later in life became an anti-pornography activist, died in 2002 at age 53 from injuries she received in a car crash.

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