The copyright infringement case against Asghar Farhadi concerning the film ‘A Hero’ was dismissed.
The court ruling on the copyright infringement case for the film ‘A Hero’ was issued based on the expert opinions of three professors from the University of Tehran, who specialize and teach in the field of intellectual property rights, as well as four official art experts. They unanimously declared the plaintiff’s claims to be unfounded and dismissed. The film ‘A Hero’ was completely exonerated from these accusations.
Part of the news provided by Asghar Farhadi’s public relations to the media includes the following explanation about this ruling: It has been stated in the conducted reviews that the film ‘A Hero,’ in terms of concept, storytelling, character development, execution, and all creative artistic elements under discussion in the field of copyright, follows a completely independent and different path from the documentary and even the actual event and published news. Thus, from no angle can the accusation of copyright infringement be applied to it.