I was reading the Patent,Trademark, and Copyright Journal and there is a story today titled “Indian Film Maker Faults Failure To Address Counterfeit Movie Sales in U.S.”. The gist of his argument is that a massive amount of Indian films are pirated in the U.S. and that just like Hollywood is cracking down in India, Bollywood needs to crack down here. I did some quick reading about the film maker Bobby Bedi and found that he presented a paper to WIPO (WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION). The paper has many of the arguments that were discussed in the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Journal article.
It also has some great quotes:
“At the end of the day, the creative space is an emotional
space and if ever there is a solution to the piracy issue it will be emerge out of emotion and passion, not technology and logic.”
There is a “Robin Hood” in all of us that believes that it is less of a crime to steal from the rich than it is to steal from the poor. We think we are stealing from limo driving, red carpet walking stars, not the two hundred people who helped create the IP and still struggle to make ends meet.
Stealing via the internet is like stealing a kiss. “There’s plenty more there, isn’t it?”.
You can read his full report here. (And you can see the quotes in context, which is important)
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