Piracy in the Indian Film Industry
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.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the historical and cultural evolution of copyright law in India
- Includes detailed data from an empirical survey conducted as part of the study, and includes the questionnaire used in the empirical survey
- Contains suggestions for legal and policy reforms in the area of copyright law in India
Product details
May 2014Hardback
9781107065437
338 pages
235 × 159 × 21 mm
0.61kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.