On Friday 16 March 2012 03:08:44 Pranesh Prakash wrote: > [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.
Not exactly. If it is a newspaper, periodical or similar publishing house, in matters relating to reproduction for publication, the newspaper, periodical, publishing house holds copyright. In all other matters copyrights rests with the author. Thus, (imo) incase of plagiarism or use for some other creative / non print publication or expression, it would be the author who has to object or provide permissions. > > 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'. What about govt / university funded research, which Vickram has raised. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
