NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday asked the makers of upcoming film ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ and the author of a book on the incident to explore the possibility to amicably settle the issue of copyright.
The complaint for alleged violation of copyright has been filed by Nitin A Gokhale, a journalist and author of the book, against the film’s producer Ronnie Screwvala and director Aditya Dhar.
The lawyer for Screwvala and Dhar told Additional District Judge Gaurav Rao that there was no copyright on the facts and ideas.
A lot of information was in the public domain after the incident and mere similarities between the film and the book cannot be termed as copyright violation.
The book, ‘Securing India – The Modi Way, Pathankot, Surgical Strikes And More’, has talked about the aspects of the planning and execution of the surgical strikes, which the Indian Army conducted on terror launch pads across the Line of Control on September 29, 2016.
Gokhale’s advocate told the court that the film infringed the copyright as the contents of the book were used without taking author’s permission.
The court has posted the matter for further hearing on January 7. The movie is scheduled to be released on January 11. (AGENCIES)
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