Satyajit Ray's family welcomes Delhi HC order on copyright
The Hindu
The family of Satyajit Ray on Wednesday hailed the Delhi High Court order recognising the film maestro as the first copyright owner for his film Nayak as a “welcome development” in the field of rights over creative content.
The family of Satyajit Ray on Wednesday hailed the Delhi High Court order recognising the film maestro as the first copyright owner for his film Nayak as a “welcome development” in the field of rights over creative content.
Ray’s filmmaker son Sandip Ray said that he considered the verdict as a vindication of his father’s rights over his own creative content. “The court’s order is a welcome development,” he said.
The order, he said, would help in bolstering the creative rights of a filmmaker or a writer on his/her works and help in resolving future disputes.
Ray, a master storyteller, had written and directed the 1966 Bengali film, which was produced by R.D. Bansal. It was his second entirely original screenplay after Kanchenjungha.
Lolita Ray, daughter-in-law of the legendary filmmaker and a member of Sandip Ray’s production unit, said that the family was happy with the court’s order that the right of screenplay be vested in the late maestro’s son.
Justice C. Hari Shankar of the Delhi High Court, in his order on Tuesday, said Ray was the first owner of the copyright to the screenplay and the right to novelise it is also vested in him.
The later conferment of this right by his son and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives on a third party was “wholly in order”, it said.
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