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Asia-Wide Movie Piracy Operations Net Record 6.7 Million Pirate Discs, 915 Arrests
Law Enforcement Agencies Conduct 1,919 Raids to Reduce Street Vendor Presence and Boost Legitimate Sales
Hong Kong – Operation Red Card, an Asia-wide anti-piracy enforcement initiative launched by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in early May, concluded in mid-July having resulted in record seizures of 6,750,350 pirated optical discs and 1,483 optical disc burners, as well as the arrest of 915 suspected motion picture pirates. The arrests and seizures far surpassed those recorded in previous MPA regional anti-piracy enforcement sweeps.
In 12 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, law enforcement agencies conducted 1,919 raids in an effort to crack down on the availability of illegally pirated movies in retail shops and markets and from street vendors during the important northern hemisphere summer months.
The main targets of Operation Red Card were piracy hot spots that had caused significant problems in the past and resisted previous enforcement efforts. The operation was aimed at protecting sales of cinema movie tickets and legitimate home video products such as DVDs and VCDs by reducing the availability of pirated optical discs. Read more at mpaa.org
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Rights' are the expressed, granted permission by the owner of a particular work to an intended buyer, for the utilization of their property in the profitable redistribution of that material. The permission, if granted, may entail the right to employ the work in the designated medium in which it was intended for redistribution. Additionally, the Copyright Act protects the owner of a property from unauthorized use of their material.
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A part of the communications plan that details how various media will be employed. Identifies the specific schedule of paid placements that have been negotiated for an ad or collection of ads, including the times and programs during which television and radio ads will run, the locations and sizes of billboards that will be placed, the publications and placement within those publications in which print ads will run, etc.
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From studios to exhibitors, the distributor sells viewing rights for a finished film. Somewhat of an intermediary function, distribution creates initial revenue for the source that financed the project. Its basic function is to sell the viewing rights of a motion picture to specifically designated areas. Based on the elements involved in the feature, the costs of these rights vary and are just a fraction of the income for distributors.
Financier
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The financier is a non-developing financial provider for a film. Simply, financiers are usually money sources looking to invest in complete, packaged scripts. Although they have the ability to bring a significant amount of a movie's budget, financiers are often money people looking at the bottom line - does the project have marketable elements already in place? Unlike most developing studios, these money sources move from script to screen quickly, however, most of the initial footwork must already have been done.
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