Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Blog 9- Media law- Copyright.

Music, books and movie properties have a long history of copyright problems, especially in China and India. Chinese government payed few attention on it and few protection to producers. In the recent years, China start to build law in order to give more protection on the intellectual property rights. People could free see all movies and books online without agree of authors. So many website owners got benefits from it. By the more and more people's protest, chinese government start to control it whit law. Now people can not easy to clip movies online. However people can pay fee to see movies, such as Netflix.

The controversy still exists. Governments can't stop people to remark other movies or TV programs. "You are super star" was been remarked by American TV from Britain. The Hollywood films are often cleverly  remade by other countries, such as indian "Bollywood".  India produces more movies than any other country, which is almost twice as many as America foes in an average year. In fact, so many movies are made in Mumbai that the international film community refers to the city as Bollywood. However many of them are suspected of plagiarism. The American TV show 'UglyBetty' have been  plagiarized by many other countries.  You are easy to find out the India Ugly Betty, The russian betty, the Chinese Betty, the Colombian Betty, the Mexican Betty,  and the Spanish Betty. All stories are the same but the actors. However did they pay to the right of the original show?





1 comment:

  1. Interesting question. I got the idea that the American "The Office" for example had paid for the rights, even used the original scripts for the first shows. But international shows in different languages? I don't know.

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