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21st March 2017 Dashrath B Rathod & Ors v Fox Star Studios India Pvt Ltd & Ors P2-NMSL693-17.DOC longer exists in this day and age) under attack from a sniper. This is hardly a traditional, ritualistic, historical or known situation. When attempted to be copied it was this that fell for consideration. The claim was not for exclusivity in an idea but in the particular expression of that idea. There can be no copyright in a mere idea or a concept. It is in the expression of that concept or idea and the manner in which it is presented or the manner in which it is developed or portrayed that enjoys protection. The Plaintiffs have done very little in this plaint to show that they have any sort of copyright or that what they claim (a ghost emerging from a tree married to a supposedly cursed living person) is unique. The concept of an evil spirit in a tree being in a film is not new either. I Married a Witch is a 1942 fantasy romantic comedy film by René Clair that has two evil female spirits in a tree. Ghost marriage is a tradition in many cultures from China to Sudan. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has this entry under 'tree marriage':5 Tree marriage, symbolic marital union of a person with a tree that is said to be infused with supernatural life. Tree marriage may also be a form of proxy marriage. In one such practice, between a bachelor and a tree, the tree was afterward felled, thereby endowing the man with the widower status required to marry a widow. Tree marriage was once widespread in India. The term can also refer to a nuptial ceremony that takes place in, on, or around a tree or that is sanctified with some part of the tree, such as the bark or sap. The latter practice is more usually part of a religious system or cult organized around beliefs that trees contain hidden or sacred power to cure or to 5 Updated 20th July 1998.