On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:41:19 +0300, ashok _ wrote: > On 9/29/06, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that the DMCA is really an issue here, unless he plans to > > distribute software in the USA. > > Yes...in my opinion DMCA will not be an issue since we are not > distributiing the software in north america....
I'm curious what you think is the outlook for enacting DMCA-like laws in India. The EU got into the act --- the EUCD shares some of the DMCA's bad characteristics. Does the Indian public really care enough about the issues to prevent Indian politicians from daring to pass something like the DMCA? > Our case would be slightly different as the university is providing > their source code to us, so we are not really reverse engineering the > product (as in decompiling) - are you suggesting one team from our end > study the code.... and another team (from our side - not directly > connected or dealing the university....) build the software? I don't know about Indian copyright law, but under US copyright law, if you didn't have access to some work by the time some alleged copying happened, you cannot be found to have copied it; but access plus substantial similarity is sufficient to prove copying for legal purposes, since the copying itself may have taken place in private with no observers --- perhaps even been subconscious.
