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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