| Hi, Could you help me understand why you need an interpretation of Indian law in this case? I understood that US Copyright laws would be applicable on Wikimedia Commons as the servers are in the US. Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone |
I have just noticed a nicely written document http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/handbook.html that makes some enlightened statement but I am not sure how well this stands for enforcers of policy on Wikimedia Commons. I have just got a deletion nomination for a few files I thought would be public domain simply because they are not legal tender and are not creative expressions. The files in question are https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_radio_license_full.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_radio_tv_license.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_radio_license.jpg but I see a lot more potential impact, for instance on most of the files in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Documents_of_India I believe that the Wikimedia Chapter in India has a role in ensuring that good legal advise is used to clarify along with the WMF legal counsel, the summary posted on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-India I believe that the definition of "work" in the Indian Copyright Act would leave many items ineligible for copyright and perhaps would make sense if experts could specify them. Any comments? Also welcome on the deletion nominations for the files listed above. best wishes Shyamal |