Copyright law, its not just for Americans anymore!

I posted earlier about an article from Lawrence Lessig in which he details how copyright law is destroying the creative capacity of artist throughout the U.S.

Basically, if you want to make a movie or a TV show or take a picture, if that vehicle contains any copyrighted objects or images, you need to get permission to show them. This means that if a director shoots people walking down the street and one of them happens to be holding a clearly visible can of Coke, the director needs to ask the good people of Coca-cola for permission. I see his point.

Anyway, while I doubted that this would have a large impact on the wild frontier known as the internet, I did run into an interesting example of his concerns....in India!
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/1077.html

Turns out, the same problem exist in India as well. Although, if I were the Coca-cola Company, I wouldn't be raising too much of a fuss in India right now (here is their rebuttal).

I wonder when Campbell's Soup is going to sue Andy Warhol's estate?