Piracy today is not the romantic plying of the 'ocean blue' as depicted in cinema or literature. It is nasty, brutal; but, for most of all, it is a highly lucrative business.
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Now a day’s our country is suffering in several wounds like Kashmir, Maoist, Bhopal Gas verdict and lots of agitation, number of innocent civilians have died and hundreds of were injured. As similar to these problems our business sector also has been damaged or suffering in the form of piracy. The coalition between the Bollywood and Hollywood studios has been named Alliance Against Copyright Theft (AACT). Formed to create a common voice to fight piracy, AACT has Reliance Big Entertainment, Moser Baer Entertainment, UTV Motion Pictures, Eros International and the Motion Picture Dist. Association as its founding members. It seems like both the flamboyant Hindi and English studios have lost their confidence in government and now they have flexed their muscles to fight against piracy.
A normal person easily manufacturing counterfeit products with the help of latest technologies and like counterfeiters are having offset printing machines with the help of this they can easily manipulate and printing counterfeit cartons of branded products and many more. Once it has been ready to sell in the retail shop “aam aadmi” can’t make a difference between spurious product and original one only IPR Vigilance company’s like investigators or the specialist can identify that it is a counterfeit products.
To deal with such kind of hazardous matter government has made some laws to protect people from the dire consequences after using such forged products.
The laws are as follows;
- Section 63 and 64 of the copy right act 1957
- Section 103 / 104 of the Trade Mark Act 1999
- Section 39 of the Geographical Indication of Goods act
- Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code
- Section 91/93 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
The above mentioned laws are made to protect original products as well as people also. According to the law, this comes under fraud IPC Section 420 with the common people and it is harmful from the medical point of view, and also harmful for our body to use such duplicate items. However, under these laws accused will be behind bars and have to pay heavy amount under such laws, but the greed of money doesn’t allow them to think about these dismal consequences. Is greed of money only reason? Urging them to commit such offence, according to me no doubt greed of money is the reason but it is the only one reason. Apart from this after conducting raid, what is happening with seized materials is whole the stock siege by the authority or distributed by officers? When raid has been conducted by the authorities is all the time raid happened or FIR lodged? The answer is no. In an anti piracy sector it is called as “Todi Paani” (bribe not to conduct raid or seize only some part of counterfeit products) one of the investigator of IPR team said on the basis of anonymity. So if officials are providing such provisions to counterfeiters then why they will be scared of law & order.
Media is shaking to citizens from their slumber and urging them to use only original products and if found any duplicate products or have a doubt kindly inform to authorities as it is heinous crime and a kind of terrorism.
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