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Piracy in the Indian Film IndustryCopyright and Cultural Consonance
Arul George Scaria
Arul George Scaria is a post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain(UCL) in Belgium.
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Size : 150mm x 230mm
Pages : 338pp
Year : 2014
Binding : Hardback
ISBN : 9781107065437
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This book sheds light on how copyrightlaw works at the grassroots level in India,by exploring the social, cultural, historical,legal and economic dimensions of piracyin one of the biggest copyright-basedindustries: the Indian film industry. Basedon extensive fieldwork, this book providesnovel and insightful findings on thecomplexity and diversity of perceptionsregarding piracy within Indian society. Thebottom-up approach analysis adopted inthe book elucidates how local factorsinfluence copyright enforcement and thebook proposes a mix of positive andnegative incentives to increase thevoluntary compliance of copyright law inIndia.
Piracy in the Indian
Film IndustryCopyright and Cultural
Consonance
Arul George Scaria
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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 PolicyOptions
6. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Detailed Description of theMethodology Used in the Study
Appendix 2: Questionnaire Used for theEmpirical Survey
Appendix 3: Tables
Bibliography
Index
