We place on record our gratitude to Shri J.F.Ribeiro, IPS (Retd.), Former Spl. Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs & presently Chief Co-ordinator, the Indian Music Industry (IMI), Shri G.P. Shirke & Shri K.D. Shorey of India Motion Picture Producers' Association (IMPPA), Ms. Asha Parekh, Chairperson, Cine & TV Artists' Association, Shri Sanjay Tandon of Indian Performing  Right Society (IPRS)   and Dr. Kala Thairani of Copyright Council. The study team benefited from discussions with Shri Tejeswar Singh of Sage Publicaions, Shri Sukumar Das of UBS Publishers & Distributors, Shri R. Mehra of Rupa & Co., Shri Manzar Khan of Cambridge University Press,
Shri Rajendra Awasthy of Authors' Guild of India. We also express our sincere thanks to Shri Pravin Anand &
Ms. Bindu Bedi Chib, IPR Attorneys for sharing their views with the study team especially  relating to legal aspects of copyright  enforcement. We would like to acknowledge all those who responded  to our field survey. We are thankful to Shri D. N. Malhotra, Chairman, Copyright Council and Dr. Biswajit Dhar, Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned & other Developing Countries for their comments on an earlier draft of this report.  

We received continuous support and valuable guidance from our Director General  Shri S. S. Sharma. The team has received logistic support  from NPC Regional Directorates at  Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

We are thankful to our colleagues Shri K. P. Sunny, Dy. Director (Research) for his help and suggestion at the initial stage of the study and Shri S. Ganguly, Library, Information and  Documentation Officer for rendering information and documentation support to the team.