Here's a response from Prof. Rajaram Sharma of the NCERT on how NCERT books may be redistributed.
Thought this group would be interested in knowing what the body's official stand on redistribution is. (Quick summary: you can redistribute, but preferably not make money out of it.) Regards, Anand ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rajaram S. Sharma Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 2:19 PM Subject: Re: NCERT Textbooks As mentioned on the NCERT website, the online pdf versions may be used as is for the purpose. The spirit of making this available on the web for a free download was, as you mentioned, make available these books to larger and larger number of children. We were forced to paste a water mark across the books to dissuade unscrupulous companies, who began making a fast buck redistributing this material on tablets and other devices supposedly value adding with other resources. A strict reading of the Indian Copyright act will allow you to use the material as is (including the watermark) on other devices, provided the service continues to be free. So, if you are intending to load in the pdfs into a device and make it available (overcoming the internet access issue), you would not be violating the law. If you begin selling it, even to the school, or in some ways repurposing the book (making it part of some other electronic content), you would be violating the spirit of the law, as in this case, you would be seeking legitimacy for your content using NCERT material, and hence profiting from it. Within the context of the above, you may download the pdfs from the NCERT website and make it available on other electronic devices in its original form only. With regards, Rajaram S. Sharma, Joint Director, CIET NCERT Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi - 110 016 ph: 011-26962580; 011-26864801-10, extn225 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
