A copyright infringement lawsuit centered on Telemundo’s popular Spanish-language telenovela “El Rostro de Analia” now has some melodrama of its own.

A federal magistrate judge has handed down sanctions for “substantial discovery violations” that now sit at $540,000 but are slated to grow for the Venezuelan TV company Latele Television C.A., which says the show is a carbon copy of its drama “Maria Maria,” which premiered in 1989.

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