This is a key milestone, Ravi. Glad to hear it has materialised. Kudos to everyone who has worked for it. Cheers, Sundar
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 at 4:29 pm, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu<ravidre...@wikimedia.in> wrote: Hi, The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have been nationalized so far and all books that will be nationalized in future will be released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license, when their copyright has not already expired according to Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and Indian Copyright Rules, 1958. Nationalization of books written by eminent people who have worked for the development of Tamil language and society is a pioneering scheme by Tamil Nadu Government where copyright is acquired following due procedure and the books are declared nationalized for public usage. The Government of Tamil Nadu first acquired rights for the works of Poet Subramania Bharathi in 1949 and announced his works as nationalized in 1963. Since then it has nationalized 2000+ works written by 100+ authors. In order to make these books fully available for public usage globally, it is essential that these books are available under a free content license. An official letter announcing this can be seen at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Public-Domain-Declaration.jpg This announcement was made possible owing to the collaboration between Tamil Virtual Academy, Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia India. Thanks, Ravi -- Disclaimer: The Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) is an autonomous entity with no direct control over the Wikipedia project and other websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, USA. This mail is sent to the members of the Chapter as part of the official communications between the Chapter, its Executive Committee and the members. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wmin-members" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wmin-members/CANY2_jBeTv8-qQ36FEsgBBEdHqbNCdaZtA2A3Y1Axv_Wum623g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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