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CREA TIVEFIRST COPYRIGHT 101

(i) Camcording of a lm in a movie theatre and thereafter distribution of such
recording to the public on pirated websites/platforms. This becomes
especially a concern when such recordings are made available within hours
of rst theatrical screening of lms;

(ii) Uploading of DVD rips of lms on pirated websites and hubs;

(iii) Providing unauthorized links to stream or download lms or sound
recordings from various aggregators of pirated websites
such as BitTorrent;

All of the above acts require little or no capital investment on the part of the
pirate, however, such acts of a piracy results in enormous losses to the
copyright owner by way of loss of potential revenues not just from the territory
where the infringement started but potentially from around the world as the
digital world is not limited by any territorial boundaries and the pirated content
in the digital space can be accessed by anyone from any corner of the world.

In the recent years there has been a signi cant increase in the instances of
piracy in India, especially digital piracy. As per reports from digital piracy
authority MUSO, there has been a 63% increase in digital piracy since the
commencement of lockdown in India in late March 2020 due to COVID-19 as
compared to the last week of February 2020. This was not limited to India as it
also increased in the US (41%), the UK (43%), 50% Spain (50%), and Italy (66%).
According to the ndings of The Irdeto Global Consumer Piracy Threat Report,
media and entertainment sector loses $2.8 billion of its annual revenue to
piracy, which is not just a loss for the copyright owners but also result in loss to
public exchequer.

In simple words, you cannot just lift someone else’s work and use it as your own
or misappropriate someone else’s work for any purpose without his consent.

Further, if a person permits any place to be used for pro t for the purpose of
communication to the public of any work that enjoys copyright protection
under the Copyright Act where such communication is not authorized by the
owner of copyright in that work, amounts to copyright infringement.

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