Hi, Great initiative from Tamil Wikimedia community. Kudos to the team. They have set an example for the Indic language Wikimedia community. I really hope that in near future, the national government and all other state governments will follow the steps taken by Tamil Nadu Government.
Regards, Bodhisattwa On 13 Jan 2016 17:24, "'BalaSundaraRaman' via wmin-members" < wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > This is a key milestone, Ravi. Glad to hear it has materialised. Kudos to > everyone who has worked for it. > > Cheers, > Sundar > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> > > On Wed, 13 Jan, 2016 at 4:29 pm, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu > <ravidre...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > > Hi, > > > The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have been > nationalized so far and all books that will be nationalized in future will > be released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication > license <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>, when their > copyright has not already expired according to Indian Copyright Act, 1957 > and Indian Copyright Rules, 1958. > > > Nationalization of books written by eminent people who have worked for the > development of Tamil language and society is a pioneering scheme by Tamil > Nadu Government where copyright is acquired following due procedure and the > books are declared nationalized for public usage. > > > The Government of Tamil Nadu first acquired rights for the works of Poet > Subramania > Bharathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subramania_Bharati> in 1949 and > announced his works as nationalized in 1963. Since then it has nationalized > 2000+ works written by 100+ authors. > > In order to make these books fully available for public usage globally, it > is essential that these books are available under a free content license. > > An official letter announcing this can be seen at > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Public-Domain-Declaration.jpg > > This announcement was made possible owing to the collaboration between > Tamil Virtual Academy, Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia India. > > Thanks, > > Ravi > > > -- > Disclaimer: The Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) is an autonomous entity > with no direct control over the Wikipedia project and other websites hosted > by the Wikimedia Foundation, USA. > > This mail is sent to the members of the Chapter as part of the official > communications between the Chapter, its Executive Committee and the members. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wmin-members" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wmin-members/CANY2_jBeTv8-qQ36FEsgBBEdHqbNCdaZtA2A3Y1Axv_Wum623g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wmin-members/CANY2_jBeTv8-qQ36FEsgBBEdHqbNCdaZtA2A3Y1Axv_Wum623g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Disclaimer: The Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) is an autonomous entity > with no direct control over the Wikipedia project and other websites hosted > by the Wikimedia Foundation, USA. > > This mail is sent to the members of the Chapter as part of the official > communications between the Chapter, its Executive Committee and the members. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wmin-members" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wmin-members/130062013.3556146.1452686080472.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wmin-members/130062013.3556146.1452686080472.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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