[Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.

[Gautam John]

On 8 June 2011 01:03, Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna at radiophony.com> wrote:

> OK. No offense taken. Your legal grounding is well established, as we all
> know.

Oh sorry - none meant! Apologies if it sounded otherwise.

> Can anyone please point me to the relevant link (for the census data,
> because the Census Authority is distinctly constituted at arm's length from
> the Government of India)? I would like to review the pertinent restrictions,
> for this list.

http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf

28. Term of copyright in Government work.- In the case of Government
work, where Government is the first owner of the copyright therein,
copyright shall subsist until [Sixty] years from the beginning of the
calendar year next following the year in which the work is first
published.

Where Government work is defined as:

(k) "Government work" means a work which is made or published by or
under the direction or control
of-
(i) the Government or any department of the Government;
(ii) any Legislature in India;
(iii) any court, tribunal or other judicial authority in India;

My reading is that the Census Authority is very much a part of
government. A question that I have been thinking about is whether
census data (in the raw form and not the presentation) is capable of
being copyrighted.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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