New Delhi: An NRI film scriptwriter has dragged Hollywood studio giant Twentieth Century Fox to the Supreme Court for allegedly stealing his script to make the mega blockbuster Independence Day (ID).

Veda Naik has moved the apex court against a Karnataka High Court judgement refusing to direct the Los Angeles-based studio to pay damages for infringing the copyright of his film script Extra Terrestrial Mission (ETM).

Mysore-based NRI Film Production Associates, Naik's production house, has also sought a direction against screening of the film throughout the world.

NRI Associates has contended in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) that the High Court erred in not granting any relief despite holding that the film ID had infringed upon the copyright of film script ETM.

This was, despite the fact, that the Copyright Act provided for relief and compensation depending on the profits made and the degree of infringement, the SLP said.

The production house had moved the High Court after a Mysore court held that film ID was totally different from the script of ETM and there was no infringement.

Naik, who earlier resided in Los Angeles, had registered his script in the name of NRI Associates in US Copyright Office in 1986, ten years before the release of ID.

He alleged that Fox, which registered the ID script in 1995, stole the ''basic plot, storyline and key dramatic elements'' from his ETM while he promoted his script during his stay in Los Angeles during 1985-93 to produce a motion picture.

As he was interested in converting his screenplay into a motion picture, he had circulated the script among a number of producers, entertainment agents and lawyers who were also associated with Fox, he said.

The defendant studio used two proxy writers to convert ETM into ID by making alterations and modifications, he alleged, pointing to the direct involvement of the US President in the war against aliens and the concept of ''energy shield'' among the many unique features that were taken from his script.