Dear Satchida, some corrections & clarifications satchidanandan k wrote: > > The best way is to approach a lawyer familiar with Indian copyright > laws( which have been recently revised to include web publishing and > internet circulation of films, music, dance videos,fusion etc) that > have attained some specificity as to what constitutes plagiarism and > book piracy.
Indian Copyright law is not recently amended. The last amendment was on on 1999. A new Amendment was proposed in 2006. It was heavily criticized by civil society groups and Free Software Activists and not implemented yet. A lot of new additions in the proposed amendments was a mimic of Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA) in USA , and have dangerous provisions to implements Digital Restriction Management (DRM) and Censorship on software through backdoor You can see the copyright Law & proposed amendments in http://copyright.gov.in/ You can find a line by line analysis, critiques and Suggessions of Proposed amendments on this link http://www.altlawforum.org/ADVOCACY_CAMPAIGNS/copyright_amdt/Copyright%20Amdt-Response-13th%20July%202006.pdf > There are also organisations like The Authors Guild of India > to which one can appeal, but they do not have legal standing; they can > only negotiate between the complainant and the accused.The onus to prove > the charge of plagiarism remains on the one who complains.In spite of > all these plagiarism is on the increse in India, especially that related > to research as recently pointed out by an IIT friend.But detecting > plagiarism has also become easier with the net search and IIT , he said, > had developed a definite mechanism to uncover plagiarism in research papers. Internet is becoming Redundant everyday. Some people are using it as a opportunity to build and sale their own detection systems. I am only looking at it as a the evolution of thousand ramayanas by the culture of copying Plagiarism is different from copyright infringement. While both terms may apply to a particular act, they emphasize different aspects of the transgression. Copyright infringement is a violation of the rights of the copyright holder, when material is used without the copyright holder's consent. On the other hand, plagiarism is concerned with the unearned increment to the plagiarizing author's reputation that is achieved through false claims of authorship. One of the recent famous stories of Indian Plagiarism is the Mashelker's plagiarisms of INTERPAT report (which increased the price of HIV/AIDS ARV Drugs in India) and His own Book http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/OPINION/Editorial/LEADER_ARTICLE_Patent_Wrong/articleshow/1593525.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mashelkar_book_not_his_own/articleshow/1696776.cms Anivar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
