Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] N A Nazeer's photographs

2013-08-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Aah, okay, thanks for clearing it up! :) On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > >> Shyamal, >> Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? >> If photograph

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] N A Nazeer's photographs

2013-08-31 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > Shyamal, > Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? > If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be > technically in violation of the law right? > It was

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments India 2013

2013-08-31 Thread Karthik Nadar
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] N A Nazeer's photographs

2013-08-31 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Shyamal, Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be technically in violation of the law right? Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] N A Nazeer's photographs

2013-08-31 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
It is very important to read this too along with the news: The officials wanted to grab the photographs, but without any attributions to the photographers themselves. As usual, these photos will later appear in costly or otherwise Govt. publications, promptly and sacredly credited to the photogra

[Wikimediaindia-l] N A Nazeer's photographs

2013-08-31 Thread L. Shyamal
I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to look