Plagiarization
Love dancing on remixes??? I do. Old melodies tuned for the new generation. Same lyrics used by our parents to romance and now we are tapping on them. These numbers did its magic 50 years back and now again by just changing the getup these songs are loved by us too.
Its just re-using the music.
Whatever these "remixers" are doing is open to all and some are considerate enough to even give the credit to the original writer and singers.
I don’t understand why these big-film-industry people (Page 3 junta) crib about “stealing the music”.
Talking about violating a copyright idea, I say, its stealing an idea from a novel and making a movie about it. “plagiarization” as we call it. I know of a novel that was deftly casted to a hindi movie which was a hit. The author is not very renowned and this was amongst her first works. A stolen piece of art which is copied to a movie and the director was applauded for his “refreshingly original” work.
The author did file a case but there are no laws in IPC (Indian Penal court) that can sue anyone whose movie is “inspired” by a novel.
The director got away with all the fame and glory and the money.
The people started consoling the author that atleast her work is molded in a famous movie and she should feel happy (Well, the grapes turned out to be sour). But, just think of it from some other angle, I am sure 90% of the people reading this are from a typical IT industry. You invent an idea, work on it for years (which is a big deal in IT where we change jobs on every new year eve) and when finally it works, your boss or some other “hero” takes away the credit. Can you feel the pain ?
Don’t you think these big directors should themselves first stop stealing before blaming the small dance groups who are making the remix dance numbers ?
But ya, who in this world is going to care about what such authors feels, we saw the movie, enjoyed it and recommented it to our friends…. Paisa wasool.
Its just re-using the music.
Whatever these "remixers" are doing is open to all and some are considerate enough to even give the credit to the original writer and singers.
I don’t understand why these big-film-industry people (Page 3 junta) crib about “stealing the music”.
Talking about violating a copyright idea, I say, its stealing an idea from a novel and making a movie about it. “plagiarization” as we call it. I know of a novel that was deftly casted to a hindi movie which was a hit. The author is not very renowned and this was amongst her first works. A stolen piece of art which is copied to a movie and the director was applauded for his “refreshingly original” work.
The author did file a case but there are no laws in IPC (Indian Penal court) that can sue anyone whose movie is “inspired” by a novel.
The director got away with all the fame and glory and the money.
The people started consoling the author that atleast her work is molded in a famous movie and she should feel happy (Well, the grapes turned out to be sour). But, just think of it from some other angle, I am sure 90% of the people reading this are from a typical IT industry. You invent an idea, work on it for years (which is a big deal in IT where we change jobs on every new year eve) and when finally it works, your boss or some other “hero” takes away the credit. Can you feel the pain ?
Don’t you think these big directors should themselves first stop stealing before blaming the small dance groups who are making the remix dance numbers ?
But ya, who in this world is going to care about what such authors feels, we saw the movie, enjoyed it and recommented it to our friends…. Paisa wasool.
posted by Jenifer | 8:20 AM
4 Comments:
First thoughts first; remixes are * mostly * loved by people who have no clue about the original. Some people even tune to the roots and educate themselves after they shake their legs on to the distorted one. I need not to tell which side I am :-). And remixers can't escape as the original is well known; so sometimes they even dediacte it to the original team.
Coming back to the core issue :- it's all governed by business. Gulzar can not make Pinjaar without mentioning Amrita Pritam ;the same is applicable to Parineeta, Devdas etc. etc. If the author is famous then leverage on that and provide your film that EXTRA edge in publicity.
On a lighter note :-
By the way , I am surprised to see your faith in statistics -> "90% of the people reading this are from a typical IT industry". She keeps an eye :-)
Mr. Anonymous,
My concern is with the non-famous authors whose hard work is stolen by movie makers.
Did you ever know that Chandni bar and Page 3 are such movies. Chandni bar’s author dint even had the money to approach the court.
Well, about categorizing the readers of my blogs, I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that statistics are made on the fly :).
Hmm..stealing of ideas is such a common phenomenon. I appreciate your thinking about it and writing it down too. Of course remixes are distorted versions of the original, but then they cannot be blamed entirely, at least they are not the only ones stealing. And we have a choice to not watch/listen to them and keep our loyalties to the original. Again, the remix stuff is a small scale industry now and on the positive side, it is providing bread and butter to many people. I am not sure if the comparison is relevant here, but everyone (including the so called critics) are looking forward to and praising Farhan Akhtar for a Sholay remake, but the same people never fail to show their distaste for song remixes. Does the difference lie in big name and unknown artists? On the basic level, they are both the same - steal, remake, resell!
:D well, its termed as being "inspired", so there is no term as "stealing of ideas" in bollywood. i still believe in the jiski lathi- uski bhains!! that is how the world is...
but one thing i m sure u also wont agree with is the attempted refurbishing of some beautiful songs by speeding up the tempo and getting scantily clad models swinging their bodies in vulgar motions.. this is no art.. this is artlessness!! having seen an old favorite song presented like that, it doesn't feel as good as it used to be.. right??
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