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Sunday, November 10, 2002

Hollywood Plays by Different Rules

Copyright: Bollywood takes on Hollywood. Economictimes Nov 10 2002 2:00AM ET

[...] The West though, has been taking serious note of Bollywood’s aping. The Sunday Times, London, quotes a Hollywood studio lawyer as saying, "Until now it has not been worth our time tangling with the filmmakers in a Bombay court. But if this Reservoir Dogs rehash (Kaante) starts making serious money in the East, we shall have to start investigating how closely such movies are copying the originals." [...]

[...] And recently, a case of copyright infringement was filed against Dr Dre, Universal, Aftermath and Interscope of Houston. Addictive has huge tracks of Resham lagta hai, from the '70s film Jyoti.

"We approached Universal in June and told them to withdraw the music. Instead of taking any action, they went ahead and entered new markets giving a message that ours was a small Indian music company. And so we have decided to take this case to its logical end," says Abheek Mitra, managing director, HMV.

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