Friday, July 25, 2008

Local studio shove creativities down the drain

National Day is coming. TV is now blasting us the ads for NDP. As usual but this time, they got in the headlines, for the wrong reasons. Someone spotted something about the ads and post on websites and also sent to newspapers. The ads have been seen as copy cats from other ads owned by other companies. Even though those other ads copied were foreign and never being shown on local TV, the likes of Youtube on the broadband age let everyone to anyone to watch almost anything. The local studio that creates the clips fail to provide originality and creative at all. Some says you get what you pay for peanuts. Others say they waste tax payer money producing such cheap products. Does the similarity on these ads pave way for any copyrights issue, even if the ads were changed? It could since ordinary people could see them so similar. The creator did not change enough. And the reply from those in-charge just put aside the issue. There goes for respect of others creative rights and properties.

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