Piracy in the Indian Film Industry

Arul George Scaria (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

338 Seiten

2014
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-06543-7 (ISBN)

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This book takes a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach by engaging in participatory research with different intellectual communities to understand the divergent perspectives surrounding piracy in India. This novel study travels through an important, yet neglected dimension of law: the interface between the legality/illegality and the social reception of it.

Piracy in the Indian Film Industry: Copyright and Cultural Consonance sheds light on how copyright law works at the grassroots level in India, by exploring the social, cultural, historical, legal and economic dimensions of piracy in one of the biggest copyright-based industries: the Indian film industry. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides novel and insightful findings on the complexity and diversity of perceptions regarding piracy within Indian society. The bottom-up approach to analysis adopted in the book elucidates how local factors influence copyright enforcement and the book proposes a mix of positive and negative incentives to increase the voluntary compliance of copyright law in India.

Arul George Scaria is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. He completed his doctoral studies at the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS-CI), Munich. He has previously worked as a CSIR-NIF Fellow at the National Innovation Foundation India and also practised as a lawyer in the High Court of Kerala, India.

Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Piracy and the Indian film industry; 3. Copyright law in India: a historical, cultural and legal analysis; 4. Copyright piracy and consumers: insights from an empirical survey; 5. In search of optimal legal and policy options; 6. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Detailed description of the methodology used in the study; Appendix 2. Questionnaire used for the empirical survey; Appendix 3. Tables; Bibliography; Index.

Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	1-107-06543-7 / 1107065437
ISBN-13	978-1-107-06543-7 / 9781107065437
Zustand	Neuware