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Chicken Run in court

LONDON: A children's author is suing Steven Spielberg's studio for millions of pounds in damages, saying the Hollywood director stole his story for the big-screen hit Chicken Run. Alan Davidson argues that the animated film produced by Spielberg's DreamWorks studio and animators Peter Lord and Nick Park infringed copyright protecting Escape from Cold Ditch, his children's tale of a hen that leads an escape from a chicken farm. Davidson claims the movie, credited to Lord and Park, infringes his moral right to be identified as the author. The papers point to a number of similarities between Escape From Cold Ditch and Chicken Run, which netted more than £100 million at cinemas and on video. Both stories star a rebellious hen, which leads her clucking friends in a World War II-style breakout across fields and barbed wire. — AP

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