We
place on record our gratitude to Shri J.F.Ribeiro, IPS (Retd.), Former Spl.
Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs & presently Chief Co-ordinator,
the Indian Music Industry (IMI), Shri G.P. Shirke & Shri K.D. Shorey
of India Motion Picture Producers' Association (IMPPA), Ms. Asha Parekh,
Chairperson, Cine & TV Artists' Association, Shri Sanjay Tandon of
Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) and Dr. Kala
Thairani of Copyright Council. The study team benefited from discussions
with Shri Tejeswar Singh of Sage Publicaions, Shri Sukumar Das of UBS
Publishers & Distributors, Shri R. Mehra of Rupa & Co., Shri
Manzar Khan of Cambridge University Press,
Shri Rajendra Awasthy of Authors' Guild of India. We also express our
sincere thanks to Shri Pravin Anand &
Ms. Bindu Bedi Chib, IPR Attorneys for sharing their views with the study
team especially relating to legal aspects of copyright
enforcement. We would like to acknowledge all those who responded to
our field survey. We are thankful to Shri D. N. Malhotra, Chairman,
Copyright Council and Dr. Biswajit Dhar, Senior Fellow, Research and
Information System for the Non-Aligned & other Developing Countries
for their comments on an earlier draft of this report.
We
received continuous support and valuable guidance from our Director
General Shri S. S. Sharma. The team has received logistic
support from NPC Regional Directorates at Mumbai, Calcutta,
Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
We
are thankful to our colleagues Shri K. P. Sunny, Dy. Director (Research)
for his help and suggestion at the initial stage of the study and Shri S.
Ganguly, Library, Information and Documentation Officer for
rendering information and documentation support to the team.
15th
Dec.,
1999
N.K. Nair
Director (Research & Intl. Services)
