Some Musical Inspirations and some cricket
Update: My bad! Anand has already blogged about this. I somehow missed that post. Now I must credit him for finding that site otherwise I might turn into one of those guys I am complaining about :)
After complaining about inspired movies, let me complain about inspired songs.
I found a great site that lists all the inspired songs and the originals. For most of the songs, it has some samples of originals and the bollywood versions.
I knew that many songs are copied, but some of them really surprised me. Do browse the list as you may get surprised too. Mehbooba-Mehbooba, Om Shanti Om ... I could have never guessed. From the newer ones, "Chanda Chamke" from Fanaa and that song from KKrish are also not originals.
The site is:
http://www.itwofs.com/
And I am watching a cool DVD of Ashes '05 highlights in a "Sunil Gavaskar presents" like format. Trumps the last 5 movies I saw at least!!
After complaining about inspired movies, let me complain about inspired songs.
I found a great site that lists all the inspired songs and the originals. For most of the songs, it has some samples of originals and the bollywood versions.
I knew that many songs are copied, but some of them really surprised me. Do browse the list as you may get surprised too. Mehbooba-Mehbooba, Om Shanti Om ... I could have never guessed. From the newer ones, "Chanda Chamke" from Fanaa and that song from KKrish are also not originals.
The site is:
http://www.itwofs.com/
And I am watching a cool DVD of Ashes '05 highlights in a "Sunil Gavaskar presents" like format. Trumps the last 5 movies I saw at least!!
posted by Nikhil at 9:34 PM
4 Comments:
Once again, I understand your concerns. But then again, as long as they aren't hurting the person who created the original (in terms of stealing revenue), I consider it OK.
How do you define "hurting"?
If a student copies from the guy in front but does not end up scoring as much as him (and thereby not hurting him directly), is that right?
I am sure every artist/researcher could use some extra royalty. After all, it was their work.
Would it be ok with you if some Indian firm ripped off a highly complex foreign product, used the same patented hardware and sold in Indian market and enjoyed the profit just because the original hardware was expensive to Indians and not easily available.
Sure the original firm was not tapping the Indian market, but isn't it a blatant theft of IP? On top of it, they get to enjoy the fame also as the genius composers who gave us these original tunes. That is plain cheating.
What if someone did the same to a groundbreaking algorithem that you figured out?
Indian music market is not small. It has huge potential. As I said, they should take the permission of original composers if they plan to copy stuff, give them credit and a piece of the pie. Then I will stop complaining. :)
You are comparing apples and oranges. Copying from someone in a test is something entirely different. Copying a tune is like looking at someone's answer sheet a few years after the exam is over and the student has graduated and then using that to answer this year's question. It didn't hurt that guy because he wasn't appearing in this year's exam anyway.
Same thing here, no one would have listened to a Mexican song in India anyway (and now don't tell you would have, I know you would, I'm talking generics here). So, if I copied some obscure tune and made it famous in India, I am not saying it's RIGHT, I'm saying it's OK. Wrong choice of words, I just meant to say, maybe it's not worth fuming over. Anyway, I, for one, think you are making a mountain out of a molehill in this case. But, I'll stop now.
I'll probably still enjoy those songs very much and those movies as well - in fact I did rent Taxi No 9211 last week and although I could predicts what was going to happen, was able to enjoy the movie given Nana's antics.
Nope. Not apples and oranges. That music director is in the same field of play. If he wanted he could market his music there. And most of the songs are available in India. People don't buy it and listen to them because they are costly. I had seen something on TV about china's bootleg market.
Don't you think translating Harry Potter books in Chinese/Hindi locally and selling them and making profit is wrong? By your logic, it should be OK as JKR is earning quite a bit in other markets and does not get hurt by it.
I already said in the other post that I enjoyed parts of these movies. Does not mean that it is even OK to copy? No.
Wouldn't it be nice to rip off old Asterix books, make some Indian characters and copy them frame by frame and make profit? I am sure people will find them very enjoyble, the ones in India who never gave asterix a second look.
Where do you draw the line then? I think it is blatant theft of IP and creativity.
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