On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:
> TamilNadu govt is publishing all the text books here. > http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in > > The books are only in PDF format and copyrighted by TamilNadu Government, > > It will be nice to release them in Creative Commons license or Public > Domain License, with the source documents. > > With the source documents we can create epub.mobi and other formats > for reading in mobiles/tablets/ebook readers. > > > I wrote to > schsec AT tn.gov.in, mdtntbc07 AT dataone.in, booksonline AT nic.in > > regarding this. > > Do you know whom to contact for this and request processes? > > Share your thoughts here. > > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > Aren't the publicly funded textbooks by default in public domain? How can a government say copyrighted? I am confused. Regards Guru Prasath _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
