WhereDevilsDare,<br>rightly said, it is our money, the government is elected to represent the people.<br>As a side note:<br>This might be of interest to you:<br>Flickr help states: <br><b>Note:</b> <span class="Highlight">If your login ID is based in Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Korea or with Maktoob.com</span>
you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of
Service (this means you won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off). <span class="Highlight">If your login ID is based in Germany</span> you are not able to view restricted content due to your local Terms of Service. <br>Is the Government censoring stuff?<br>
I feel this could also affect Wikipedia and the Commons.<br>Maybe this could be clubbed with the railways thing from the previous thread?<br>--Regards,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2011 22:10, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com">wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Very contentious issue Pranesh. The issue is not only this - but also to insure that any Indian government works be in public domain as well as that of a Public Servant when on duty (like in the US - after all it is OUR govenment and OUR money spent hiring that Public Servant!).<br>
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:07 +0200<br>From: <a href="mailto:pranesh@cis-india.org" target="_blank">pranesh@cis-india.org</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
CC: <a href="mailto:aprabhala@gmail.com" target="_blank">aprabhala@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:sunil@cis-india.org" target="_blank">sunil@cis-india.org</a><br>Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><pre>Dear all,<br>It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the<br>term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years<br>(which is the minimum required by international copyright law) to 60<br>
years *after the death of the photographer* (i.e., copyright term = life<br>of the photographer + 60 years).<br> <br>So say a photographer aged 25 clicks a photograph and dies at the age of<br>75 (in 2061):<br>Under current law the copyright on that photo expires on January 1, 2037.<br>
Under proposed law, copyright on that photo expires on January 1, 2122.<br> <br>The difference: 85 years!<br> <br>(I hope I've done the math correctly.)<br> <br>So only your great-grandchildren will be able to upload that photograph<br>
to Wikipedia.<br> <br>As far as I can understand, there has been no positive lobbying on this<br>front by any photographers. No one has really asked for it.<br> <br>We, from the Centre for Internet and Society submitted a 'civil society<br>
submission' (with the backing of 22 organizations) which criticised this<br>to the Standing Committee that was examining the amendment. But the<br>chairman of that committee did not take notice. In effect, the Standing<br>
Committee heard only rightsholders (and groups, including ours, working<br>on the exception for persons with disabilities).<br> <br>Are people on this list concerned about this? If yes, then we all need<br>to try to get this particular amendment targetted and struck off when<br>
the amendment gets presented before Parliament in the Monsoon session.<br> <br>Regards,<br>Pranesh<br> <br>-- <br>Pranesh Prakash<br>Programme Manager<br>Centre for Internet and Society<br>W: <a href="http://cis-india.org/" target="_blank">http://cis-india.org</a> | T: +91 80 40926283<br>
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