JFYI: my team worked on Vachana Sahitya digitization and research tool last
year and it was made available to public reuse this year.
We are in process of the content review and once done, we (vachana sanchaya
team) will be pushing this to kannada wikisource .
Here is a blog post on this effort and our future plan.
The next major digitization task we are on is Daasa Sahitya.
It feels good to hear that Karnataka Government now recognizes the public
domain content with appropriate license. Of they provide access to any
form of digital content through this process, we would be more happy to
make it available in Unicode and share it back through Wikimedia projects.
Thanks again for everyone who are working hard behind these Open Knowledge
initiatives.
On Sep 24, 2014 9:56 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].
Coming to this specific case of CC release,what I see important for our
context of open knowledge movement in India is the gesture of release of
such large content under Creative Commons by the Government of Karnataka,
than anything else. I am sure you will agree that we all could cite this as
a precedence in negotiating with other Government entities for getting more
content released under CC. For instance, we at CIS-A2K showed Goa
University's Konkani Wikipedia re-licensing under CC as an example in
persuading the Mysore University authorities to release the Kannada
Encyclopedias under CC.
Such precedents become even more important in the Indic Wikimedia
project's context as the publication of majority of non-fiction writing in
the Indian languages during the last 60 years happened under aegis of the
Government in India.
Cheers,
Vishnu
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural &
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea-expression_divide (needs wiki love)
On Wednesday 24 September 2014 07:00 PM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu wrote:
Hi Pavanaja,
Please excuse my ignorance regarding Kannada Literature.
Are we talking about the works of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purandara_Dasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaka_Dasa
and works like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasa_sahitya
These seem centuries old and should be already available in public domain
with no copyright claims. Why woud we need them re-released under Creative
Commons?
If Dept of Kannada & Culture, Govt of Karnataka provides access to
readily available digitized sources, it is an important gesture and I
appreciate the effort behind this. But, not sure on the copyright part.
Could you please clarify?
Thanks.
Ravi,
Program Director, Wikimedia India Chapter.
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