On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Narendra Sisodiya
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>
> http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/copyright.php
> Its says !!
>
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Bombay, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
> © 2006 by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
>
> All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or
> transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
> downloading, recording, photocopying or by using any information storage and
> retrieval system without prior permission in writing from the copyright
> owner:
> Provided that the above condition of obtaining prior permission from the
> copyright owner for reproduction, storage or transmission of this work in
> any form or by any means, shall not apply for placing this information in
> the concerned Institute's library, departments, hostels or any other place
> suitable for academic purposes in any electronic form purely on
> non-commercial basis.
>
> Any commercial use of this content in any form is forbidden.
>
>
>
>  I AM SAYING THAT PUTTING THE "2" CLAUSE ABOUT "NC" IS FOOLISH TASK IF NOT
> USELESS.
>
> See Govt is putting Public Money and It is creating Content which we cannon
> USE/REMIX and SHARE it. There exist a college in MP/UP which do not have
> proper Internet Bandwidth, Please give a "LEGAL METHOD" to supply these
> videos to that college.

Neither it is foolish nor it is uselss. You are missing the point
completely. The content in question is not some artwork which can be
mixed and matched by any person just like that. The content in
question is educational material involving scientific facts and data.
If someone mixes and matches the content and starts redistribution,
who is going to verify (or ensure) the scientific accuracy of the
facts and data. Just mixing and matching of educational/scientific
content is dangerous. What if someone mixes it with personal
propaganda or false facts and starts distributing it ?

 Secondly, the NC clause is important in a country like ours where
cheap run of the mill institutes mushroom everyday. How do you plan to
protect exploitation in case someone downloads the the content from
net, burns a DVD and starts selling it at price of his choice. In this
scenario, he is building his business on content created out of public
money.I think the current license has clause to prevent this.

 As for obtaining the lectures. Have you ever bothered to contact
IIT's to obtain the copy for the college with bad connectivity? Have
IIT's refused ? From my experience, IIT's do everything possible to
have a copy delivered to you. There are email id's mentioned on the
site for Govt aided institutions, write to them. If you think that is
lot of bureaucracy, contact any senior IIT professor to obtain a copy.

regards
Vivek

-- 
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!!
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