...number of box office hits per year in Telugu film industry (Tollywood) - analysis and recommendations Business Research Methods Submitted to Dr Arun Abraham Elias Victoria Management School Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Submitted by M Rohit PGP/17/151 – Section C Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode India M Rohit (PGP/17/151) Page 1 Business Research Methods (2014) Abstract This paper talks about the emergence of Telugu films and subsequent growth and development of Telugu film industry (Tollywood). Indian film industry on a whole is facing serious issue in the decrease in number of hits per year. An attempt has been made to study this trend in Tollywood. Entertainment industry is a major source of income in the Indian GDP. Hence this topic of research has been chosen. The industry has seen transformation from Puranas to mass folklore to technological breakthroughs in the form of colour films and many more innovations. Tollywood holds a special place in Indian film industry in terms of quality of films, number of films released, box office collections and cultural and political impacts on India. This paper approaches the industry with behaviour over time analysis and then identifies various stakeholders involved in this complex network. The paper gives a brief idea of the effects of various parties on the industry. An attempt has been made to address various issues relating to technology, piracy, viewership, etc., by taking into account the...
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...TOPIC: NEGOTIATING AND DRAFTING ENTERTAINMENT CONTRACTS AND THE EFFECTS OF PIRACY OCCASION: 26th Workshop, organised by LawQuest Ltd. PRESENTER: Francis Oseloka Nzekwu Esq. (Head of Legal Unit, National Film and Video Censors Board) VENUE: Alhaji Shehu Musa Yar’ Adua Center, Abuja, Nigeria DATE: 19th – 20th September, 2007 INTRODUCTION Entertainment law is primarily made up of contract law and intellectual property law, the industry covers mostly fields that offer entertainment as a primary product. Fields such as film, music, fine arts, dance, literary publishing, Broadcasting, sports etc. They all share a common interest of profiting from creative works or services provided by artists. Much of work of entertainment law practice is transaction based. Litigations often occur as a result of common and recurring mistakes that are made during negotiations and drafting. In the entertainment industry hundreds of legal relationships are created every day and having a sound knowledge of common issues in the industry is critical in negotiating a deal and drafting a good contract. CONTRACTS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY Personal Service Agreement (PSA) Promoting a product or a service involves investing a lot of time and money, with the expectation of return on investment. The possibility that the product or service will not achieve the expected success or any success at all introduces a risk factor. A great majority of artists do not have the...
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...not adapted to the changing times. On the other side of this picture you have individual people that what to experience what artist of music, movie and software present to the world. What I am presenting to you is world around illegal downloading of copyrighted material. The question I present to you is this, how can we bring both sides of this picture together with both sides being able to get what they want? To begin lets go back a few years to around 1998. I am sure most of you have heard of Napster. For those that didn’t think was a new file sharing program that was able to download copyright material digitally. The processed worked by taking small parts of the overall file from multiple sources and piecing them back together on your end as a whole file. This was a huge problem to the recording industry and as such saw their record sales fall. Instead of the recording industry trying to work with the leaders of Napster and other programs to come up with a solution, the recording industry along with some artist sued Napster for lost revenue. In the end Napster lost their court battle, but this was not the end of illegal downloading of copyrighted material. Since this time the recording, movie, software and pornographic industries have seen their profits continue to fall due to broadband internet becoming the norm. These industries have not changed their business model to adapt, but instead have increased the number of lawsuits against people that download content. In the...
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...to exercise a monopoly on the use of product/creation/idea for a limited period of time. For most of companies, IPR is the only way to protect their products and compete in the worldwide market. Same as the companies, IPR encourage inventors to develop new technologies and ideas. • IPR infringement has reached a critical level in many countries. The sectors mostly hit by this phenomenon are software houses, luxury companies, music/movie industries, and pharmaceutical products. Illegal downloading of software, music, movies, and imitations & counterfeit products became one of the biggest problems for all these sectors which lead to large loses in terms of income. • The countries most affected by IPR infringements are China, North Korea, Russia, Brazil, and India. According to the Business Software Alliance, in China, 79% of the software and 85-90% of music records have been pirated. Issues: • There are two major problems related to IPR infringements for the companies: the loss in income and the loss of reputation/image. • The piracy market is flourishing despite all the laws which protect copyrights, trademarks, and so forth. • The Chinese government seems not so interested to protect IP until some of its domestic firms will start to be threatened by this phenomenon. Same policy is adopted by many other developing countries. • Without an adequate international system which protects efficiently the intellectual...
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...The company I have chosen to do the external environment scan is Redbox. Redbox is in the movie rental business via self service kiosks. Redbox is wholly owned subsidiary of Coinstar Inc. Laws and Regulations: There are some specific laws and regulations under which the movie rental business like Redbox should operate. But due to the growing popularity of renting videos through mail, online and kiosks, most of these laws will probably have to change or modified to fit the new way of people renting and watching movies. Age of Renters – This law for who can rent specific videos follow the same guidelines set by Motion Picture Association of America. These guidelines are based on their content, language, sexuality, violence and themes. Privacy Laws – This law protects the video rental records of individuals as the records can be damaging to a person’s reputation and they cannot be disclosed without written consent. Public exhibition – Videos and DVDs are not allowed to be publicly exhibited outsides of a persons home unless for non profit use or educational purposes without a license. Federal Copyright Act – This law governs how copyrighted materials can be used and distributed. The movie studios who own copyrights are the only parties who are authorized to license sites to display movies for protection of their intellectual properties. Antitrust laws – these laws promote or maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by prohibiting...
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...The advent of the internet has had a profound effect on countless aspects of our lives. Since the internet’s commercialization and availability to the general public in 1995, its impact and influence on our culture and commerce has been immeasurable. Nearly every industry has been affected to some extent or another by the widespread use of the internet. The entertainment industry has received seemingly endless media coverage pertaining to the industry’s adaptation, or lack of adaptation, to the new age of the internet. The entertainment industry (also informally known as show business or show biz) is a broad term for the industry of providing entertainment, which includes the sub-industries of radio, television, film, music, and theatre. This industry has gone through an enormous transformation since the internet’s inception in 1995. The internet continues to pose many challenges and opportunities to the industry. This paper will examine the impact, both positive and negative, that the internet has on the entertainment industry. Media coverage indicates that, among the entertainment industry, the film and music industries have been most affected by the World Wide Web. However, the other forms of the entertainment world have, albeit to a lesser extent, been affected as well. The least affected area of show business is theatre. The very nature of theatre is to view a performance live and in-person. There are websites, such as Arte Live Web, that do broadcast live theatre...
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...Article Summary - “The Business of Making Movies” In recent years, the movie industry has gone through some very significant changes which has led to an increase in the cost of making movies. Some of these include increased production and marketing costs, the cost of piracy, the use of digital technology and the increase in different types of entertainment available to people. These and other factors have changed the types of movies that will be made. Movies are a significant source of income in the US as well as for many other countries. They are of great importance in reflecting cultures. It could also be argued that movies can incite change in the world. India leads the charge as far as largest number of films released followed by the US and China. In the US, the motion picture business is made up of six major studios. Some of these studios also own smaller subsidiaries that produce independent films. The number of these that are made available to the general public is very small. There are tens of thousands of independent films every year that never make it to the big screen. The process of making a movie includes six stages: development, pre-production, production, post-production, marketing and distribution and exhibition. This article focused on the first four stages. The producer of the movie is the person who has ultimate control of the project and is responsible for keeping the movie budget on track. The producer follows the film from the idea all the way...
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...growth, they have established 3 marketing priorities: creative innovation, global expansion and application of technology. With the execution of their marketing strategies, they had a great creative year in 2005. For creative innovation, they have invested in healthy food with Kroger and will soon launch a food line offering healthy alternatives, while personal care products, baby and toddler products, and floral items. For global expansion, Disney recently opened the Hong Kong Disneyland and resort and has recently expanded television service in India and China. For technology, they have invested in Video games, personal video players, broadband-based devices and other mobile products that will have an impact on their business. The Importance of Marketing Disney uses product development, product modification, branding, distribution, advertising, sales promotion, pricing and publicity as part of their marketing strategies. Creativity continues to be the main strategy of Disney, “from movies to television, from animation to live-action, from theme parks to consumer products to online business. Their ability to penetrate markets and attract consumers is reliant upon the kind of branded, in-demand, high quality, creative content for which Disney has been known.” (Datamonitor, 2006). Top Three Marketing Challenges Challenge 1 - In Innovations Disney has been one of the leading brands in family entertainment, with a wide portfolio of products and services. However, intense...
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...Table of Contents Company and Background....................................................................................................................................4 Rationale..................................................................................................................................................................4 Target Audience.......................................................................................................................................................4 Company History.....................................................................................................................................................5 Legal Status..............................................................................................................................................................5 Company Issues.......................................................................................................................................................5 Vision Statement......................................................................................................................................................6 Mission Statement....................................................................................................................................................6 Ethics.....................................................................................................................................
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...Journal of Intellectual Property Rights Vol 18, September 2013, pp 457-464 Piracy in the Internet Age Nikita Hemmige† ILS Law College, Law College Rd, Pune 411 004, India Received 17 December 2012, revised 12 August 2013 The Internet has created boundary-less territories and has helped in evolving a unique method to share and transfer information, growth of e-commerce and in creating a global platform for all nations and its citizens. Online piracy is a major flipside to this development. Rampant intellectual property (IP) infringements by way of unlawful reproduction and unmonitored downloads is a matter of concern. It is significant to take note of the laws that various countries have enacted and enforced in order to curb or at least regulate online piracy and related activities. Further, though the Copyright Act, 1957 and Information Technology Act, 2000 in India deal with certain facets of piracy, they do not conclusively deal with this menace. It is the need of the hour for India to draft and enforce laws which will address the current problem and also take into consideration the technological advancements that are likely to give rise to more of such complex issues. Formulating such a law in the near future will be a welcome change and will definitely give India the IP advantage. Keywords: Online piracy, copyright infringement, jurisdictional barriers, Internet laws, intellectual property The Internet has become the first port of call for anyone in search...
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...Business Law The Copyright Act As a part of Intellectual Property Rights (With Relevant Provisions to WTO) INDEX Introduction............................................................................................................................04 Introduction to Intellectual property Rights...........................…............................04 Industrial Property.........................................................................................04 Artistic and Literary Property.....................................................................05 Nature of Intellectual Property Rights........................................................05 Introduction to TRIPS………………………...........................................................06 Berne Convention...........................................................................................08 Introduction to WIPO………………………………………………………..……..09 Introduction to The Copy Right Act………………………………………………10 Meaning of Copyright……………………………………………........................................11 Terminologies of Copyright…………………………….......................................................12 Registration of Copyright………..........................................................................................13 Correction of entries in the Register of Copyrights………………………...…….14 Rectification of Register by Copyright Board……………….................................15 Duration of Copyright………………………......................
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...[pic] Assignment on Intellectual Property Comparison Between Developed And Developing Countries. Submitted to Fahmida Hasan Senior Lecturer Department of Business Administration Submitted by |Name |ID | |Rajib Kundu |2010-2-10-329 | |Rakib Hasan Rabbi |2010-2-10-300 | |Razuan Ahmed |2010-2-10-071 | |Almahmud |2010-2-10-048 | |Showrav hasin |2010-2-10-074 | |S M Mostafizur Rahman |2010-1-10-092 | Section : 1 Course No : BUS 361 Course Name: Legal Environment of Business Transmittal Letter April 4,2013 Fahmida Hasan Senior Lecturer Department of Business Administration, East West University ...
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...[pic] Assignment on Intellectual Property Comparison Between Developed And Developing Country. Submitted to Fahmida Hasan Department of Business Administration Submitted by |Name |ID | |Rajib Kundu |2010-2-10-329 | |Rakib Hasan Rabbi |2010-2-10-300 | |Razuan Ahmed |2010-2-10-071 | |Almahmud |2010-2-10-048 | |Showrav hasin |2010-2-10-074 | |S M Mostafizur Rahman |2010-1-10-092 | Section : 1 Course No : BUS 361 Course Name: Transmittal Letter April 4,2013 Fahmida hasan Department of Business Administration, East West University Subject: Submission of an assignment on comparison...
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...October 2011 INDEX INTRODUCTION Page 2 INDUSTRY INDUSTRY SUCCESS FACTORS PORTER‟S FIVE FORCES Page 3 Page 3 Page 3 NETFLIX, THE COMPANY PROBLEMS FACEBOOK BLOCKBUSTER Page 6 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 CONCLUSION Page 11 RECOMMENDATIONS Page 12 EXHIBITS Page 14 APPENDIXES Page 18 1 INTRODUCTION Netflix entered the video rental industry in 1998, being pioneer on the online delivery channel. They were the first conceiving the digital format that was able to faster the delivery process at the same time it abolished several costs related to the physical points of sales. Being pioneers and developing technologies on which they had patents over could initially be seen as a competitive advantage. The fact of being the first ones operating under this format permitted them to come up with several services before competitors, as the streaming video, the disc rental, the original programming and the household profiles. Not only for being pioneers, but also for the valuable services offered, at accessible prices and with high variety of content, the image among consumers about Netflix was constructive. The share of mind among users was on a general perspective positive and of satisfaction relating to the services they were paying for. Netflix had a great brand awareness and in a positive sense. However, more recent happenings are changing this position. With the years competitors of the industry developed their services, competing more and more...
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...Marketing Plan Erik Wohler, Adnan Otovic, and Joshua Adamson MKT/421 – Marketing March 28, 2013 R. Scott Bluemel Marketing Plan: Phase I Overview of the Organization The entertainment industry is a vastly changing business, although the ideology has stayed the same throughout history. Since the earliest documented cases started appearing, stories and music were used to overcome and surpass dark times in cultures throughout the world. In more recent historical examples, during the great depression, the largest break through for the entertainment industry began to show by way of movies, musicals, radio and early television. Movies really began to dawn as a way to escape the realities of everyday life and live vicariously in a world of wonder and enchantment, or love and drama, for those who had more serious worries in the real world. With the progression of technology, movies have become a literal escape, with millions of followers across the globe. The movie industry has made such dramatic leaps in technology that the demand for movies and theaters has grown largely over the past 20 years. At Regal Cinemas, being one of the largest franchises across the globe, business has been remarkable. “Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) operates the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuit in the United States, consisting of 6,862 screens in 538 theatres in 38 states and the District of Columbia as of February 21, 2013, with over 211 million attendees for the...
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