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
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