On Thursday 25 September 2014 11:19 AM, Rajesh Ranjan wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Anivar Aravind
<anivar.arav...@gmail.com <mailto:anivar.arav...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Vishnu <visdav...@gmail.com
<mailto:visdav...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Ravi,
On the copyright question AFAIK... it is the manner in which
a certain content is expressed (e.g. analyzed, compiled,
paginated, represented, etc..) the author could claim
copyright, as there is a certain basic amount of creative
labour that went into it. So Govt. of Karnataka could
rightfully copyright these works, which it has now released
under CC-BY-SA 3.0. A useful thing to read in this context
would be this [1].
As Ravi pointed 11th Century Kannada literature is already public
domain . There is no point in re-licensing it as CC-BY-SA .
Digitization does not create fresh copyright . While thanking Govt
for their efforts to make it available , please dont create fresh
copyright on it . And while looking at details, There was no
point of time in which govt of Karanataka had copyright on this
content .
This effort is almost in same lines of Open access initiative of
rare public domain books by Kerala Sahitya academy happened almost
same time last year
(http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/online_library/index.html) .
They havnt claimed any undeserving copyright on these books . SO
it is better if people involved canm correct Govt of Karanataka at
this point itself showing kerala example to avoid further
ambiguities surrounding license .
~ regards
Anivar
I agree with Ravi and Anivar!
I am not an expert of licensing, but the thing that is already in
public domain, licensing the same under CC-BY-SA 3.0 is one way
limiting the public availability of the same content.
Rajesh and Anivar,
Purely from a copyright POV, it is important to recognize the idea -
expression divide. The content per-se in this case may be public domain,
but it is the expression of it that is copyrighted as I stated above.
Especially, as I understand, the copyright act in India has bare minimum
requirements for creative labour.
But I am willing to be better educated on this.
Cheers,
Vishnu
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