06 April 2008

Is copyright right to copy in India?

History repeats itself at least for Indian cinema

recently When accused that his movie is straight copy from hollywood movie The dream team,director of Krazzy 4 Jaideep Sen said that the similarity in the films is “sheer coincidence.”

This is not the first time even in Past there has been such incidents

1) Sony Pictures Entertainment threatened to sue producers K Sera Sera for $30 million for copying the Will Smith-starrer Hitch into Partner.

2)in 2003,Barbara Taylor Bradford filed a suit against the channel claiming that it's serial Karishma was a copy of her novel A Woman of Substance.

I am also told Munnabhai mbbs is an inspired movie along with likes of

Kaante,Baazigar,zeher etc.(list is too long)

Are copyright laws doing enough to protect the intellectual property in India?

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