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MAKING MONEY ON SOME BODY ELSE'S CREATIVE WORK...
There are umpteen news, stories and cases available about Indian film makers copying script ideas, stunt sequences, lighting patterns, background score and song tunes from HOLLYWOOD MOVIES in Bollywood shamelessly. The unethical plagiarists don't even spare their fellow Indian writers who are members of the same film writers association, Mumbai who on and off suffer a great loss whenever the film directors and writers from Bollywood bending low so as to copy their original works and go ahead making films on them daringly. It is painful to see later how the original creator fights for the copy rights justice and ends up spending years in Indian courts. At times poor guys surrender mid way and sometimes lucky ones win too if they are able to sustain the legal battle till logical end.
There are several examples but I remember two famous cases vividly where Indian producers had to pay a huge chunk of money in Crores before the release to a Hollywood screenwriter in Supreme Court on whose movie Indian film makers had made a Hindi film secretly. And in other case, the producer had to pay in Crores too to an Indian Music director whose tune had been lifted by a famous music director.
COPY CATS OF INDIA...
There are several examples but I remember two famous cases vividly where Indian producers had to pay a huge chunk of money in Crores before the release to a Hollywood screenwriter in Supreme Court on whose movie Indian film makers had made a Hindi film secretly. And in other case, the producer had to pay in Crores too to an Indian Music director whose tune had been lifted by a famous music director.
At times some people copy frame to frame the entire films so brazenly and do not feel embarrassed at all to face criticisms especially from film critics who regularly watch all kinds world cinema and write about it in their reviews. Sometimes Indian film makers even borrow sequences, themes from french, Korean, Italian, Chinese and even south Indian films too for that matter. Plagiarism is not that rare in Bollywood and is pretty much in fashion these days in the times of Remakes and sequels.
On the other side, there are plenty of righteous film makers as well in Bollywood who work hard to create original concepts and at times when they are impressed to see others' work to such an extent that they tend to buy the copy rights from the original writers honestly and pay them certain remunerations for making Hindi films over their ideas.
There are scores of poster designers who steal poster designs too in India. And the original creators who had spent good chunk of time and energy on conceiving and designing them are paid nothing for this secret stealth. You can see below a series of posters that were lifted from original posters of other films, novels and publicity concepts.
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