{"id":143062,"date":"2024-07-17T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T23:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143062"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T23:48:59","slug":"legal-opinion-of-dr-harsha-cabral-p-c-and-mr-kushan-illangatilaka-attorney-at-law-on-copyright-of-drs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/07\/17\/legal-opinion-of-dr-harsha-cabral-p-c-and-mr-kushan-illangatilaka-attorney-at-law-on-copyright-of-drs\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Opinion of Dr. Harsha Cabral, P.C. and Mr. Kushan Illangatilaka, Attorney-at-law on copyright of DRS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senaka Weeraratna<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

ICC (International Cricket Council) has been using the Decision Review System ( DRS) without the license of the Copyright Holder since 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am the copyright Holder. <\/strong>There are no other claimants in the world except Senaka Weeraratna of Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a one-horse race but the inventor’s own country is not prepared to support the inventor before the ICC.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the Minister of Sports have failed Sri Lanka by not challenging the ICC for the use of a Sri Lankan’s intellectual property without his consent <\/strong>and thereby depriving Sri Lanka of receiving the Royalties due for the use of the DRS, into the coffers of a Bankrupt country. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is tantamount to a Dereliction of Duty or Failure or Refusal to perform a Public Duty.  <\/strong>Both the SLC and the Minister of Sports are accountable for falling short of the performance of their duties. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unauthorized use of the DRS by the ICC, metaphorically speaking, is the equivalent of a highway robbery of someone’s property in broad daylight.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ICC cannot disclose the name of an author(s) of DRS and they are not prepared to recognize a non-European as the author.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is in short the raw truth. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the claimant for recognition had a name like say John Smith then the label would read like ‘ John Smith DRS ‘  –  It would have passed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ICC can get away with this ‘rope trick’ because of the slave minds of our cricket administrators, commentators, scribes, and more importantly our politicians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

who are least worried about whether Sri Lanka gets recognition for DRS or not. Their conduct has been shameful and <\/strong>contrary to the spirit of cricket which has always stood for fair play and justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Sarath Abeysundera ( my friend from childhood days at school) made a statement calling for support as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

” This vexed problem of \u2018 hora umpires\u2019 and \u2018 hora decisions\u2019 remained unresolved in cricket until one of our ex-classmates came to the fore and gave a solution that turned cricket adjudication on its head. He challenged a fundamental premise of traditional cricket i.e., the umpire’s decision is final. This finality is no longer granted to an umpire\u2019s decision largely due to the campaign of our ex-classmate who vehemently argued in the international arena that player dissent should be allowed for a noble cause i.e. to right a wrong. He used his legal training effectively to argue his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 UDRS has been hailed as the most revolutionary step taken to reform cricket rules since the inception of the game. A  Sri Lankan \/ old Royalist has conceived a concept i.e. player referral, which has brought fairness to umpiring decisions. It has been adopted by the ICC since October 1, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 We must commend this achievement. To stand together with Senaka Weeraratna though he has many more hurdles to clear before he gets final recognition from the ICC. At a personal level I have decided to back Senaka\u2019s fight for due recognition which I am certain will bring recognition and glory to our country, school, and even the Royal College 1960 Group.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am appending the<\/strong> Legal Opinion of two leading lawyers Dr. Harsha Cabral, P.C., and Mr. Kushan Illangatilaka, Attorney-at-law, on the authorship of DRS. <\/strong>It is a four-page document. <\/strong>See the Attachments also. I have obtained the prior permission of Dr.  Harsha Cabral, P.C. to share this opinion with Lankaweb. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I am appealing to the people of Sri Lanka and the cricket lovers of the world to support me in my sincere endeavour to see that Justice is done <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

to my effort to resolve a long-standing problem in cricket adjudication and to my interest in seeing that due acknowledgment and accompanying tangible reward is given to my far sighted contribution to the game of cricket. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senaka Weeraratna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

( Father of DRS)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senaka Weeraratna ICC (International Cricket Council) has been using the Decision Review System ( DRS) without the license of the Copyright Holder since 2006. I am the copyright Holder. There are no other claimants in the world except Senaka Weeraratna of Sri Lanka. It is a one-horse race but the inventor’s own country is not prepared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}