[email protected] [2012-03-15 21:34]: > On Thursday 15 March 2012 16:23:59 Vickram Crishna wrote: >> Is there clarity on 'ownership' of research documents produced in >> Universities funded by the Government? Meaning, at the very least, for >> research funded with government money. > > As per copyright law ownership will automatically rest with the author. > Unless > the university makes the author sign a cc-?? licence, I can see the above > failing in court if an author chooses to prevent publication. > However I am not at all sure of any copyright terms being attached to funding.
1. Copyright for anything written in the course of employment (i.e., as part of employment) vests with the employer, unless there is a contract to the contrary. 2. The government owns the copyright of all works produced by the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, as per the Copyright Act. (Let's not get into the complicated question of copyright over laws and judgments, as it is fair to assume that for all practical purposes they are in the public domain, though technically that is not true in India.) 3. There is a limited exception to this in s.52(1)(q) of the Copyright Act. All of this is covered in a fair amount of detail in CIS's 'Report on Open Government Data in India'. ~ Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash · Programme Manager · Centre for Internet and Society PGP: 0x1D5C5F07 · @pranesh_prakash · http://cis-india.org
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