On Tuesday 08 Sep 2009 1:35:49 pm Vickram Crishna wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Pranesh Prakash <pran...@cis- india.org>wrote: > > On Monday 07 September 2009 10:24 PM, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote: > > > And I would rather suggest we make a personal rule to not to reply to > > > any such message (that enforces a licence). > > > > Finally, 'public domain' is not really a licence, and as far as I'm > > aware, it is > > difficult to achieve in India due to s.21 of the Copyright Act. > > Sometimes the ridiculous is sublimely so. Which do you think could possibly > have come first, the Copyright Act, or public domain, or for that matter, > courts in which to enforce rules of behaviour? > > If s.21 of the Copyright Act does not recognise rights of public domain, > then the law is at fault, and must be changed. If it is ultra vires the > Constitution per se, then the need to amend it is more urgent.
from what I remember sec 21 merely lays down the procedure for giving up copyright and putting something in public domain. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
