Thanks Sukhdev.... Here I post about an article published today in the
The Hindu on Copyright Case of DU.
Why students need the right to copy? -SHAMNAD BASHEER.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/why-students-need-the-right-to-copy/ar...
Sridhar
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On 26 April 2013 11:32, Sukhdev Singh
Dear LIS-Forum Members,
During my interaction with Dr. T C James (Director, NIPO and Consultant, http://jamesthanickan.tripod.com ) I have come to know about a landmark amendment in Indian Copyright Act (The COPYRIGHT(AMENDMENI)ACT, 2012, No. 27 OF 2012, An Act further to amend the Copyright Act, 1957. )
According to these amendments, Libraries can now store Electronic Copy of document held by them in Hard Copy.
The text of the relevant amendment is as follows:
... (iii) for clause (n), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-
"(n) the storing of a work in any medium by electronic means by a noncommercial public library, for preservation if the library already possesses a non-digital copy of the work;";
(iv) in clause (o), for the words "public library", the words, "non-commercial public library" shall be substituted; ...
Regards
Sukhdev Singh, TD, BID, NIC HQs.
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