/> Times, they're certainly changing.

When Govinda played a lying lawyer forced to tell the truth in David Dhawan's Kyunki Main Jhooth Nahin Bolta there was no question of copyright infringement.

David just went ahead and remade the Jim Carrrey comedy Liar Liar...just like David and Govinda lately collaborated on the smash hit Partner a raunchy ripoff of the Will Smith starrer Hitch.

But now filmmakers are waking up to the importance of copright laws.

Ravi Chopra who has just released a colour version of hid dad B.R. Chopra's 1957 classic Naya Daur starts shooting his new directorial venture with Govinda and Lara Dutta later this month.

"Though it's loosely inspired by the Hollywood film My Cousin Vinny (1992 comedy directed by Jonathan Lynn featuring Joe Pesci as a struggling lawyer fighting to free his cousin) we've acquired copyrights for the remake.

If we're making a film about the prevalence of the legal system and how the wronged can be subjected to untold harassment if the right legal advice isn't provided to them, then it was only right that we do the legally correct thing by buying the original's right, " reasons Ravi whose banner B.R Films is no stranger to films about the legal system.

In 1960 Ravi's illustrious father B.R. Chopra had a made a songless drama Kanoon about the loopholes in our judiciary.

"The Govinda film cannot be songless. It's an out-and-out comedy. But with a pungent justice-delayed-justice-denied message under the fun veneer, " informs Ravi Chopra.

This startling move to beat Bollywood's reputation of plagiarism is in direct contrast to the random apery that's been going on for decades. Even the Chopra banner had appropriated the sensational rape saga Lipstick into the Hindi hit Insaaf Ka Tarazu in 1980 without bothering with copright laws.

Now even when Karan Johar uses a part of an American song 'Pretty Woman' in Kal Ho Na Ho he makes sure money goes into the proper hands.