A Japanese court rejected a request by Paramount Pictures to halt sales of bargain-priced DVD releases of movie classics like "Roman Holiday," Kyodo News reported Tuesday. The Tokyo District Court ruled that the copyrights to the movies in question had already expired and the company releasing them again in DVD format, First Trading Corp., was not required to stop its sales, the report said. Paramount Pictures Corp. filed the injunction request with the court in May against one of several Japanese companies producing and marketing them at a bargain price, according to news reports.

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