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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | Music industry demands stringent action against pirates 14.55 IST 17th Oct 2004 By IndiaExpress Bureau Seeking protection of intellectual property in music, the apex body of music companies Indian Music Industry (IMI) today sought setting up of an enforcement agency to protect copyrights and levying of stringent action against the pirates. "The national enforcement agency as suggested by the music industry should ideally comprise of an anti-piracy organisation by the government that will operate at the national level," IMI said in a statement in New Delhi. The music industry also demanded that the government should impose stringent statutory damages as a deterrent punishment for pirates. "Leniency in the Indian judicial system and law enforcement is resulting in diluting the efforts undertaken by IMI to dissuade pirates," it said. Citing example that in the US, it said a person caught with pirated products is charged with statutory damages of 1,50,000 dollars as against a mere Rs 5,000 fine or one year's imprisonment in India. "We need to treat music and entertainment software as human creative inputs. It is relevant to point out that 70 per cent of CD and reading equipment costs comprise of the creative inputs of music artists," IMI president Vijay J Lazarus said. |
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