Plagiarism or inspiration?

First it was Karishma Kapoor starrer "Karishma", and how its Zee TV's
Time bomb that has been identified to be plagiarized from those
telecast in the west.

But this time it's the twentieth century fox film corporation of
America, which found the newly launched serial 'Time Bomb' closely
resembling its tele-serial '24'. But is this copied or inspired?

The west has been a forerunner of copyright issues and the IPR. And
Indians have a legacy of getting inspired by them. There is hardly
anyone who doesn't know how Anu Malik fuses the western tunes to suit
them for the Indian audience. Our reverse engineering processes in
pharma had been giving them nightmares. However, 2005 brought in a
patent regime in the pharma sector, and prevented reverse engineering.

Why do we Indians don't recognize the value of one's worth?. You find
pirated books available at rock bottom prices. Go to any suburban
station of Mumbai, you find pirated CDs and DVDs being sold like
fruits. And the price? A measly Rs 20 for a song CD. Call it value for
money or piracy, this system works. There is rampant piracy in
software. Except for the corporate, individuals hardly install any
licensed software. We have the latest developments, but no one pays
for it.

Perhaps the factor is of high prices. You don't expect someone who has
just the capacity to spend Rs 15000 on a computer to shell out another
3500 on a windows XP. Add to that the cost of MS Office. Lower per
capita income and a desire to grow leads to such practices. But is
this ethical? I would say, its ok as long as you don't get caught, and
in India, this doesn't happen often.