tailieunhanh - IS BOLLYWOOD UNLAWFULLY COPYING HOLLYWOOD? WHY? WHAT HAS BEEN DONE ABOUT IT? AND HOW CAN IT BE STOPPED?

In what emerged as a cult film for youngsters, KKHH (1998), Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is a flirtatious young guy who though does not mind flirting with girls, would however want to take only a homely girl in front of his mother, for marriage. While it is completely alright for him to flirt, he has very clear ideas about whom he wants to marry and that the girl should be simple. His best friend Anjali (Kajol) who is a tomboy falls for him and makes every effort to woo him by turning herself to be girlish. Under the veils of. | IS BOLLYWOOD UNLAWFULLY COPYING HOLLYWOOD WHY WHAT HAS BEEN DONE ABOUT IT AND HOW CAN IT BE STOPPED Introduction A popular film favorite among lawyers and law students is the 1992 Oscar-winning comedy My Cousin Vinny The film features Joe Pesci as a quickwitted but hapless attorney defending two innocent New York teens from a capital murder charge in the Deep 2 It was fitting then that a film about law and justice would be used as a guinea pig in Hollywood s most aggressive attempt to enforce its copyrights against unauthorized Bollywood remakes of Hollywood In the spring of 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth Century took the unprecedented move of filing suit for copyright infringement in the Bombay High Court of India4 against the Mumbai5-based film production company BR BR Films was set to release Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai This Guy Is Fearless in June Twentieth Century alleged that the producers and director of Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai blatantly created a substantial reproduction of My Cousin The Bombay High Court 1 My Cousin Vinny Palo Vista Productions 1992 My Cousin Vinny Internet Movie Database http title tt0104952 last visited Apr. 13 2012 . 2 My Cousin Vinny supra note 1 My Cousin Vinny supra note 1. 3 See Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai Stuck in Copyright Row Release on Hold for Multiplex Stir The Indian Express May 21 2009 3 35 AM http news banda-yeh-bindaas-hai-stuck-in-copyright-row-releas e-on-hold-for-multiplex-stir 463 253 0. 4 For an overview of the structure of Indian courts see Rachana Desai Note Copyright Infringement in the Indian Film Industry 7 Vand. J. Ent. L. Prac. 259 265 2005 . For the history of the Bombay High Court see History of High Court of Bombay High Ct. Bombay http last visited Feb. 13 2012 . 5 In 1996 the city known as Bombay was renamed Mumbai. The high court in Mumbai however retained the name Bombay. History of MCGM Mun. Corp. greater Mumbai .