India to seek photocopy right for students
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India will seek changes to international copyright regulations so that
students and researchers can procure photocopies of expensive books without having to pay royalties, a senior government source said.
BASANT KUMAR MOHANTY
New Delhi, Sept. 20: India will seek changes to international copyright regulations so that students and researchers can procure photocopies of expensive books without having to pay royalties, a senior government source said.
Come December, he said, the Union human resource development ministry will ask the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) to relax its norms that protect authors’ and publishers’ commercial rights over their books.
The ministry will suggest at the next general assembly of Wipo, a UN body with 185 nations as members, that educational and research institutions be exempted from the copyright regime.
“Students and researchers use material (from books) for academic purposes. In developing countries like ours, they should not face any restrictions in doing so,” the source said.
The ministry plan comes at a time the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis have moved Delhi High Court alleging illegal photocopying of their books by a private vendor operating from the Delhi University campus.