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

[Vickram Crishna]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>wrote:

> On 15 June 2011 03:38, Vickram Crishna <vvcrishna at radiophony.com> wrote:
>
> > In this light, the copyright disclaimer on the Census webpage seems
> > completely invalid.
>
> Vickram - good catch but even the lack of a copyright notice does not,
> per se, mean there is no copyright. Copyright is presumed to be
> granted the moment it has been created.
>

Of course, and I am completely in agreement with the sentiments of the
commons group, who evidently do not want to see Wikipedia get caught up in a
series of fruitless litigations across the world.

I was drawing the attention of the list to the fact that the government
people, who claim copyright for everything the government publishes, despite
the fact that some of it is commons, are also ether slipshod in the manner
in which they claim the copyright, or being forthright about the fact that
some of it, possibly the data itself, is not intended to be copyrighted.

Now, the disclaimer wording brought to our attention by Abhilash also
mentions that not everything in the site is copyright, one must look at
individual listings within in order to see if copyright is claimed therein.

Naveen would do well to check that the information he wants to scrape in
order to create his maps is specifically copyrighted, as otherwise it is
clearly free-to-use, and the copyright disclaimer is very specific about
this freedom.

-- 
Vickram
Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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