The Intellectual Property Infringement - ''The Egg'', movie

Dear Sir/s,

I am referring to you on behalf and on the account of my client Mr. Dominik Sedlar, an US citizen, regarding a direct threat and offense to the business reputation and overall copyrights and other rights of my client, and therefore incurring him damages of significant scope, all deriving and in relation with an audio-visual piece of art, a short movie called "The Egg", solely directed by my client, which represents a kind of interpretative screening of Andy Weir's short story with the same name. Thus, my client gave his contribution to the movie making by directing it and also by working to help put together the production, too. He even physically filmed several of the sequences used in the movie. Please review, at the bottom, the photos: Exhibit 4-6.

Referred issue is highly brought to your attention, as the movie is included in your official database with false and for my client detrimental data.

The existing copyright infringement, detrimental for my client, was undertaken by Mr. Andrej Dojkic and Mr. Dario Bajurin who publicly announced and gave false information regarding the movie copyrights, unauthorizedly and untruly stating that Mr. Dojkic would be the director, producer and screenwriter of the movie, whereas his role in the movie is solely as an actor and my client Mr. Sedlar is unequivocally and indisputably the true director of it.

The aforesaid false information also gives wrong and distorted impression that my client was in no way involved in the copyright creation of the movie.

Please review, at the bottom, the poster of the movie prior to Mr. Dojkic’s detrimental attempt: Exhibit 1-3.

Due to the existing copyright infringement, detrimental for my client, and in the same time undertaken by Mr. Dojkic and Mr. Bajurin, my client launched the legal protection procedure against them for the purpose of protection and exercising his rights and interests grounded by the law, including the court proceeding initiating which is onward in progress at the Commercial Court in Zagreb, CRO, under official no. 21 P-1345/19. 

Also, my client officially informed the main professional associations and other involved entities in CRO of the copyright infringement, simultaneously requesting legal steps to be undertaken, officially, by them within the framework of their authorities and competence.

Notwithstanding and contrary to the fact that the merit had been brought to the competent court to be solved through a lawsuit, Mr. Dojkic and Mr. Bajurin tended to infringe my client’s copyrights onwards, more specifically, to submit and present the movie at the official Seoul International Film Festival 2019.

Being properly and fully informed of the infringement, the SIFF 2019 organizer has already withdrawn the movie from the official SIFF 2019 Program schedule.

Furthermore, with this, I inform you of the fact Mr. Dojkic and Mr. Bajurin also misuse initially given consent of Mr. Weir for his short story (script) to be used for the movie – as my client has understood properly – on an exact condition: the movie to be used exclusively and solely for non-commercial purposes. Contrary to that, Mr. Dojkic tends to use Mr. Weir’s good name to help advance his own career status (IMDb credits, Croatian newspaper articles, citing Mr. Weir as the writer of “The Martian”) and apply the movie to festivals, attempting to help advance his own career under completely false statements.

With this, you are advised to disassociate from the perpetrators and from the movie itself, primarily by removing the movie from the official IMDb database or, at least, correcting the name of its director in a way: citing my client's name Dominik Sedlar as the director and erasing Andrej Dojkic and each and every other possible as a director.

Otherwise, you will be detected as a participant in the existing copyright infringement equally with the aforesaid perpetrators and my client will undertake further appropriate legal steps to protect and exercise his copyrights regarding the movie.

Hence, you have been informed.

Waiting for your recurrent information at your earliest convenience of undertaken disassociation steps,

Kind Regards,