On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:29, Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna@radiophony.com> wrote:
In this particular case, doubtless Arun Ganesh is specifically aggrieved, since it was his picture the Government has acquired al la Singur (but without the comforting legislative sanction such actions normally need), but WMF's ability to display content in the public domain would be rather severely constrained if government functionaries made a habit of this sort of thing. As a matter of fact, we have been discussing on separate threads just how much that ability is constrained by new definitions in India extending copyright in text and picture for extended periods that even the pharmaceutical sector does not enjoy for formulations that have been brought into the market only after the expenditure of several millions of dollars (which they ameliorate by 'conducting' clinical tests in India winkety wink but that's another tale for another thread) in developmental costs.
Though it might be related, lets not get into Indian copyright law debate here, atleast not in this thread. As for this case,the violations have been noted on talk page[1][2] and no one can question copyvio including the government. (Usually our admins are more paranoid about violations than govt, which in its own way helps)
