Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs
Write a letter, followed by a petition, get signatures, challenge the government in Court. If it was easy, somebody would have done it already. :-( On 12/29/11, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: how to ask the government to give them in public domain? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs
*Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs* http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-ease-copyright-curbs-992 *Wikipedia the online encyclopaedia is struggling to reproduce contents, which are freely available in government websites.* * * *Wikipedians say government copyrighting its content has hampered its publication work in the world’s largest free online encyclopaedia. Gautam John, a Wikipedian who is former board member and secretary of Wikimedia India chapter, said, “There is a difference between contents of websites being publicly accessible and contents in public domain. In India, contents of government-funded websites are publicly accessible but they are restricted to be in public domain.”* * * *Gautam added, “In US, government websites are not only in publicly accessible but are allowed to be in public domain that is reproduced and publicised”. He can’t understand rationale behind government copyrighting its websites contents, though it’s a practice inherited from colonial era.”* * * *Wikipedians are asking for an open license for reproducing contents of government websites. Gautam, said, “Its the tax payers money which was used for generating such data. Data like census, healthcare, and others are neither sensitive nor related to national security.* * * *Wikipedians have also abandoned their project to update profiles of six lakh Indian villages in Wikipedia. Wikipedia enables any person to contribute matters of his or her interest on it. Tinu Cherian, a Bangalore based Wikipedian and working in a MNC, had started the project, India Villages, last year. Tinu, said, I completed about 1200 villages of Karnataka and 1200 villages of Kerala. But for the time being I have stopped the wok.” * * * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : The publisher ( Financial Chronicle ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs
court! Will try with my law friends. is it possible to get full details on this? perhaps a detailed report Will help my law friends to understand the issue and take further actions. please share some more details. thanks. On 29 Dec 2011 19:24, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Write a letter, followed by a petition, get signatures, challenge the government in Court. If it was easy, somebody would have done it already. :-( On 12/29/11, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: how to ask the government to give them in public domain? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs
That was just an idea. I guess, Gautam, being a lawyer himself can help you out on the matter. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs
Look at the United States. While agreed, NASA pics always get featured, it's purely because they're public. Works done by Soldiers on duty, including photographs of concerts automatically become public domain. And we here have a government that can't even release Census data into the Public Domain. On 12/29/11, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs* http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-ease-copyright-curbs-992 *Wikipedia the online encyclopaedia is struggling to reproduce contents, which are freely available in government websites.* * * *Wikipedians say government copyrighting its content has hampered its publication work in the world’s largest free online encyclopaedia. Gautam John, a Wikipedian who is former board member and secretary of Wikimedia India chapter, said, “There is a difference between contents of websites being publicly accessible and contents in public domain. In India, contents of government-funded websites are publicly accessible but they are restricted to be in public domain.”* * * *Gautam added, “In US, government websites are not only in publicly accessible but are allowed to be in public domain that is reproduced and publicised”. He can’t understand rationale behind government copyrighting its websites contents, though it’s a practice inherited from colonial era.”* * * *Wikipedians are asking for an open license for reproducing contents of government websites. Gautam, said, “Its the tax payers money which was used for generating such data. Data like census, healthcare, and others are neither sensitive nor related to national security.* * * *Wikipedians have also abandoned their project to update profiles of six lakh Indian villages in Wikipedia. Wikipedia enables any person to contribute matters of his or her interest on it. Tinu Cherian, a Bangalore based Wikipedian and working in a MNC, had started the project, India Villages, last year. Tinu, said, I completed about 1200 villages of Karnataka and 1200 villages of Kerala. But for the time being I have stopped the wok.” * * * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : The publisher ( Financial Chronicle ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs
how to ask the government to give them in public domain? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
