Please help this little girl. She's wondering why the Bollywood poster seems so familiar... 😀 Can you tell her why? 😀

Point her to this old post of ours: https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/111797010662879870 😀

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Look! It's the 1960s, otherwise known as the "golden age" of that other, eastern entertainment industry! 😀 And here, we find (yet) another stolen tune! 😀

Original (Japan, 1960): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbInOKklN8&t=7s
Copy (1968): https://youtu.be/o5dpChQfKqo?t=45 / https://youtu.be/o5dpChQfKqo?t=63 / https://youtu.be/o5dpChQfKqo?t=181 etc.

The "film" this song is from was a copy too: https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/113232406598301267 😀

More copied music in our #Music posts! 😀

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Hall of Shame!

An American comedy from 2000 copied by Bollywood in 2004. Here it is today. 😀

More such Bollywood copies of foreign movies in our #HallOfShame! 😀

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Here's another case of "happens only in Bollywood"! 😀 First, check this copy: https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/113991156831766259 😀 Now, try this one:

Original (1946): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek6NZg5r7Gc
Copy (1981): https://youtu.be/tS6m8paAgMA?t=45 / https://youtu.be/tS6m8paAgMA?t=134 / https://youtu.be/tS6m8paAgMA?t=204 / https://youtu.be/tS6m8paAgMA?t=274 etc.

Guess what? Both copies are by the same "composer", a certified repeat offender! 😀 This is him: https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/112388722040689206 (+ many, many others! 😀)

More stolen tunes in our #Music posts! 😀

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Hall of Shame!

Here's another Bollywood "film" for our (already crowded 😀) Hall of Shame! 😀 This one, from 2012, plagiarized a 2004 American romantic drama! 😀

More such copied "films" in our #HallOfShame posts! 😀

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Copied Scenes!

So far we've seen these Bollywood "films" plagiarize scenes from a popular American TV series 😀 :

https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/115406734067158428
https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/111394987824655796
https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/114574379267949167
https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/115248189867413123

Now let's add one more to this list: https://youtu.be/VeibCp_cYUQ?t=210 😀

More copied scenes in our #CopiedScene posts! 😀

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Plagiarism Spotlight! 😀

First, *another* celebratory photo! 😀

And now, the new Plagiarism Spotlight #Spotify #playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0pIZxOqGTVP3f0XKatqeAf?si=96e4dfd05c144bf9 😀

Note: the copy from https://mastodon.social/@Copiers/116210782899507650 is not available on Spotify.

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Stolen! A popular song from Nepal plagiarized by Bollywood in 1989! 😀

Original (1974-76): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcRh45HwRTs&t=26s
Copy (1989; faster tempo): https://youtu.be/VogRxVOJr1g?t=56 / https://youtu.be/VogRxVOJr1g?t=157 / https://youtu.be/VogRxVOJr1g?t=219 etc.

Well, that's how Bollywood rolls, folks! Find more such copied tunes in our #Music posts! 😀

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Hall of Shame!

Here's Bollywood's 2008 copy of an acclaimed 1992 American legal drama + the 1989 play from which the 1992 movie was adapted. 😀

More such Made-in-Bollywood copies in our #HallOfShame! 😀

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What else, but *another* tune copied by Bollywood! 😀 Here they are in 1998, copying an Oscar-winning classic! 😀

Original (1969/70): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySlY1XKlhM&t=4s
Copy (1998): https://youtu.be/G3PWqq0yUoI?t=42 / https://youtu.be/G3PWqq0yUoI?t=63 / https://youtu.be/G3PWqq0yUoI?t=147 / https://youtu.be/G3PWqq0yUoI?t=201 etc.

Yep, happens only in Bollywood, folks! 😀 More stolen tunes in our #Music posts! 😀

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