Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-22 Thread Gautam John
Asaf and Dror - thank you very very much for these inputs. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 20 June 2011 13:14, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: In the meantime, here is some more food for thought: I have asked my former colleague in Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-20 Thread Asaf Bartov
In the meantime, here is some more food for thought: I have asked my former colleague in Wikimedia Israel, Dror K (CCed above), to share his experience with attempting to block similar legislation in Israel in 2007, and how he ended up helping to mitigate it. I bring his account verbatim below.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-19 Thread Gautam John
; su...@cis-india.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs Dear all, It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years (which is the minimum required

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-19 Thread Gautam John
On 19 June 2011 21:57, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote: If one of you could help me draft the letter (I'm looking at you, Gautam), that would be appreciated. For sure. Will work on this offline and post it here for further action. Thank you. Best, Gautam

[Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Dear all, It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years (which is the minimum required by international copyright law) to 60 years *after the death of the photographer* (i.e., copyright term = life of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs Dear all, It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years (which is the minimum required by international copyright law

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Servant!). Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:07 +0200 From: pran...@cis-india.org To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: aprabh...@gmail.com; su...@cis-india.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs Dear all, It seems clear that through a new

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Gautam John
!). Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:07 +0200 From: pran...@cis-india.org To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: aprabh...@gmail.com; su...@cis-india.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs Dear all, It seems clear that through a new amendment

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
CC: aprabh...@gmail.com; su...@cis-india.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs Dear all, It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years (which