Pranesh, Gautham,
By any chance, can we create a Petition about this ?
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On 18 June 2011 23:23, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org> wrote:
Pranesh:
Do you have a form letter we could use, please?
Something that we could each sign, individually, and send? To whom? By
when?
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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On 18 June 2011 23:05, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh(a)cis-india.org> wrote:
Dear all,
I am well aware that there are other issues such as that of copyright
over works by the government and public undertakings. We have raised
this issue in our analysis[1] as well as our formal submission to the
Parliamentary Standing Committee.[2]
However, it is one thing to get something that is good (broad exception
for government works / or even better: making government works public
domain) which is not even on the table, and preventing an impending
harm: decrease of the public domain in terms of Indian photographs. The
first is a longer term goal than the second.
Copyright term of photographs is going to increase if folks don't stand
up against it.
Regards,
Pranesh
[1]: Analysis:
http://goo.gl/Iv69r
[2]: Civil Society submission:
http://goo.gl/9Ws3E / Analysis of
Standing Committee's report:
http://goo.gl/Fs5WM
On Saturday 18 June 2011 06:40 PM, wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com wrote:
>
> 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!).
>
>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:07 +0200
> From: pranesh(a)cis-india.org
> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: aprabhala(a)gmail.com; sunil(a)cis-india.org
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for
photographs
>
> Dear all,
> It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the
> term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years
> (which is the minimum required by international copyright law) to 60
> years *after the death of the photographer* (i.e., copyright term = life
> of the photographer + 60 years).
>
> So say a photographer aged 25 clicks a photograph and dies at the age of
> 75 (in 2061):
> Under current law the copyright on that photo expires on January 1,
2037.
Under
proposed law, copyright on that photo expires on January 1, 2122.
The difference: 85 years!
(I hope I've done the math correctly.)
So only your great-grandchildren will be able to upload that photograph
to Wikipedia.
As far as I can understand, there has been no positive lobbying on this
front by any photographers. No one has really asked for it.
We, from the Centre for Internet and Society submitted a 'civil society
submission' (with the backing of 22 organizations) which criticised this
to the Standing Committee that was examining the amendment. But the
chairman of that committee did not take notice. In effect, the Standing
Committee heard only rightsholders (and groups, including ours, working
on the exception for persons with disabilities).
Are people on this list concerned about this? If yes, then we all need
to try to get this particular amendment targetted and struck off when
the amendment gets presented before Parliament in the Monsoon session.
Regards,
Pranesh
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