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Copied songs of Bollywood - music piracy?

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There are hundreds of songs in Bollywood which are directly copied, adopted or inspired from other songs. Some of these songs saw huge success in the Bollywood film industry. What I don't understand is, where we have certain music directors who have been engaged in making their own music and mark, how can another bunch think of coping the tunes of some other songs and present as their own work? Well, below are few very famous Hindi film songs which got the popularity among Indian people, but actually were adopted or copied from works by other musicians and music directors. Original song TAK BISAKAH from the album Alexandria (2005) by Peterpan ZIGEUNERJUNGE released as a single in 1967 by Alexandra (Doris Treitz Nefedov) YA GHALI (Arabic song) from the album Qissati (2002) by Guitara AH REUM DA OON SA RAM from the Korean series Nae ireumeun Kim Sam-soon (2005) by Seo Yoo Suk RETURN TO THE ALAMO (an instrumental track) from the album Tasty (1977) by The Shadows (Orches...

Slums of Slumdog Millionaire

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This is not a review about the movie. Nor this is about the Oscars. Thre's no denial that Slumdog Millionaire is unimpeachably an fantabulous crowd pleasing movie, its narration and technical excellency being its added advantage. But what I want to talk about is " Who are the real Slumdogs here?? " From the different circumstances I would like to believe that Mr Rahman or Anil Kapoor are the real "Slumdogs". They couldn't suppress their "Monkey Nature" when the film was nominated for the Oscars. Infact Anil Kapoor was behaving like a 'CHILD' when he was talking bout his 'Armani'. (Every Tom, Dick and Harry wear Armani in Oscars). He did nothing in and for the film. The film was tremendously wonderful for people to watch because of the natural acting by Azharudin Mohammed Ismail, Rubina Ali and other actors. Ofcourse including Dev Patel (i suppose he's the next Big Thing), Freida Pinto, (Natural) Irfan Khan and Saurabh Shukl...