@Rajesh @Ravi @Anivar @Pavanaja Don't you think CC0 (Public Domain) is the
best license for this? We always back off from using the government
produced books and content unless it is stated to used by public without
restrictions. But data that has been in circulation among people doesn't
require to be copyrighted even for just digitizing. We should surely
discuss this at large.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Rajesh Ranjan <rajeshkajha(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Vishnu <visdaviva(a)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.
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