Datuk Yusof Haslam and two others won in their appeal over the Court of Appeal’s decision on the copyright infringement of a novel titled ‘Aku Bohsia’ filed against them by a novelist. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
“We are of the view that the Court of Appeal fell into error when overruling the High Court’s decision ,” said Justice Wong who presided over the appeal with Federal Court Judges Tan Sri Ramly Ali, Datuk Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Tan Sri Idrus Harun and Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan. The court made the ruling after hearing submissions by lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, representing the three appellants, while lawyers K.Periasamy and Abd Razak Ismail acted for the novelist.
The novelist , who used the pseudonym Anne Natasha Nita, claimed there were many similarities between his bookThe Court of Appeal had granted Elias’ appeal for an order to declare that the three had violated his copyrights for his novel and an order for them to pay him damages, to be assessed by the High Court and had reversed the Kuala Lumpur High Court’s dismissal of his lawsuit against the three.
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