Hi Balasankar, Can you point out specific instances and show when and where the book or publication was first published? If the works are still copyrighted in India, then they should be copyrighted in the US as well, generally speaking. The term India awards to creators is lesser than the one provided in the US under copyright laws. Regards,
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Balasankar Chelamattath < c.balasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > As most of you know, the Indian copyright law says that a book gets > relieved of copyright after 60 years from the author's death. But this is > not the case with US Law. As given > here<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Copyrightterm.pdf>, > of all the works published outside US, only those published before 1923 > are directly in the public domain. The ones published between 1923 and 1977 > without compliance to the US formalities will be in the public domain only > if they are in the public domain in their source country as of 1 January > 1996. Almost all the other categories of published works will not be in the > public domain until 95 years after publishing. > > This induces a confusion and when looked in a legal perspective, most of > the books in Indian Wikisources, are still not in public domain and hence > must be removed. This makes a huge negative impact on the hard work done by > contributors. Their contributions are wasted which may cause them to stop > contributing. In short, this may be a negative impact on Wikimedia's image > in the society. > > The only solution to this problem is to *host the servers of Indian > Wikimedia services in India*, so that the data we upload is stored under > Indian Laws. Can Wikimedia India Chapter do anything on this? We can plan > and conduct a fundraiser in India to raise money for the hosting expenses. > > Please consider this issue with maximum priority as it involves legal > procedures and related headaches. > > Regards, > Balasankar C > https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Balasankarc > Regards, > Balasankar C > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
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