By Mohit Kapoor and Ajay Shaw
Piggy-backing on Creativity
The concept of "Plagiarism" has generated much curiosity in recent times especially in the context of the entertainment industry. The term has been defined by authors as "the act or instance of copying or stealing another’s words or ideas and attributing them as one’s own."
Recently, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s best-selling novel, A Woman of Substance, which is considered a classic in popular fiction and which was also aired on TV stations across the US as a six-hour miniseries, is once again making waves, not within the world of global fiction, but instead on the Indian television and legal circuit.
Bradford claims that the television offering, Karishma – a Miracle of Destiny is a plagiarised version of A Woman of Substance. An injunction has been granted against the broadcasters to prevent broadcast of the Rs 60-crore serial.
