Hollywood in India: Protecting Intellectual Property (A)
4. Consider the issue of plagiarism in a book. At how many "exactly same" words to you draw the line? How many lines of computer code need to be the same to judge that one piece of software is a plagiarized version of another? Is such a "bright line" really necessary?
5. Now you have these two movies: My Name is Khan is about an autistic man who falls in love, who wanders all over the United States in a quixotic quest, who quotes his mother all the time and gets to meet the President of the United States. Forest Gump is also about a somewhat different type of person, who falls in love, who happens to run all over the United States, who quotes his mother a lot and gets to meet the President of the United States. Is one character a plagiarized version of the other?