Last Friday, I watched Ejen Ali The Movie: Misi Neo with Izzati and Angel after class ended.. The movie was super cool. The storyline's interesting. There was one part of the movie that made me cry a little because my heart couldn't take it. The scene was the scene of Ejen Ali and his late mother, Aliya.
To relate to Intellectual Property, let's say if the movie is Malaysian-based, Section 3 of the "literary work" includes novels, stories, books, pamphlets, manuscripts, poetical works and other writings. This means that the storyline for a movie or drama is a literary work.
The author/owner of the storyline for this movie are deserving of the copyright. The copyright doesn't necessarily have to be registered, as long as it is original and as long as it has been reduced in material form as stated by Abdul Malik Ishak J in the decided case of Kiwi Brands.
Therefore, if anyone happened to use the same storyline for monetary gain, substantially, the author or owner can claim their copyright and file a suit for copyright infringement as provided in Section 36(1) of the Copyright Act 1987.
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