Dear Mr Vijaykumar Please find out the year in which the book was published and the year of death of author. Copyright for the book exists from the date of creation/publication of the book through out the lifetime of the author and up to fifty years after the death of the author - (enjoyed by his heirs). This means that during an author's lifetime and upto fifty years after his death, you can not copy without obtaining a permission to do so. In simpler terms, as of today (- we are in 2004), books whose authors are dead and gone before 1954 are safe to be copied. Once the copyright expires as indicated here, You can freely digitise and make available digitised version for use among your customers. This applies to Books published in India. Merely because a book has gone out of print you can not copy or digitise a book. ICICI Knowledge Park houses an Intellectual Property Cell dealing with Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks etc. For further help you may contact : Mr Subhajit Shah at: subhajit@icicikp.com Hope this is useful. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631 mailto:subhajit@icicikp.com -----Original Message----- From: vijaya kumara [mailto:vijayakumar71@yahoo.co.in] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:33 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; iatlis@yahoogroups.com; nmlis@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iatlis] Is I voilating copy right act ? Dear Professionals. To fullfill the library user need, I searched a book to purchase, but I came to know from the different book distributor is "The Book which I am searching is out of print" But I find the same book with my professional friend, then I thought to digitize the same book for the benefit of our library users. If i do, is I voilating copy right act ? Kindly let me know on this aspect. Based on your/ professional suggestion, I will contiune. Waiting for your kind reply Regards Vijayakumar *************************************************************************************** Vijayakumar M, HOD - Library, MVJ College of Engineering, (ISO Certified Institute), Bangalore-560 067 080 - 28452324 Ext. 234 mailto:library@mvjeducation.com library@mvjeducation.com _____ Do you Yahoo!? Take http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mobile/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail... Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. Yahoo! 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Dear Mr Vijaykumar   Please find out the year in which the book was published and the year of death of author.  Copyright for the book exists from the date of creation/publication of the book through out the lifetime of the author and up to fifty years after the death of the author - (enjoyed by his heirs). This means that during an author's lifetime and upto fifty years after his death, you can not copy without obtaining a permission to do so. In simpler terms, as of today (- we are in 2004), books whose authors are dead and gone before 1954 are safe to be copied. Once the copyright expires as indicated here, You can freely digitise and make available digitised version for use among your customers. This applies to Books published in India.   Merely because a book has gone out of print you can not copy or digitise a book. ICICI Knowledge Park houses an Intellectual Property Cell dealing with Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks etc. For further help you may contact : Mr Subhajit Shah at: mailto:subhajit@icicikp.com subhajit@icicikp.com   Hope this is useful. Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre, ICICI Knowledge Park, Genome Valley, Turkapally, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA Email: vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com Phone - Office: +91(40)23480053 Fax: +91(40)23480007 Phone Residence: +91(40)27846631   mailto:subhajit@icicikp.com         -----Original Message----- From: vijaya kumara [mailto:vijayakumar71@yahoo.co.in] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:33 PM To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; iatlis@yahoogroups.com; nmlis@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iatlis] Is I voilating copy right act ? 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