India to seek photocopy right for students

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India to seek photocopy right for students

▻http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130921/jsp/nation/story_17374550.jsp

Initiative très intéressante en Inde :

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.

#inde #copyright #photocopie #droit_d_auteur

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intéressant mais curieusement détaché du combat pour l’#open_access en ligne qui serait peut moins nocif sur le plan environnemental... même si sans doute en Inde les limitations dans l’accès aux ordinateurs l’expliquent.

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Un commentaire de Simon Batterbury de l’université de Melbourne :
Nonetheless, copyright is pretty much impossible to enforce ever since the internet started working properly in the 1990s. Great in principle to benefit the writer or owner, but in reality things escape paywalls all the time.
We are deluding ourselves if we think written texts will somehow take a different path to music downloads. I have never downloaded any music or films, but I am told this is pretty much the norm these days.
The major academic publishers are putting up fierce resistance where they retain copyright to articles, but in a few hours all current geography articles from this month could be uploaded to an offshore domain, circulated to several others, and replicated as they are chased down. Individual copyrighted material the same. Only a new form of file, that self-destructs on an illegal download, is time limited or something, would halt this.
The open access movement (which is about allowing material to be read by anybody, essentially) may be distasteful to some because to the potential for upfront charges to writers, but it actually fits with how the world now works. And with the needs of cash-poor Indian students and their universities too.

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Les défenseurs du copyright aujourd’hui mettent toujours en avant le droit des auteurs à être rémunérés mais omettent de mentionner que dans l’immense majorité des cas, les auteurs ne perçoivent qu’une très faible, voire aucune rémunération. Ce sont des éditeurs qui encaissent et qui promeuvent la défense du droit « d’auteur » et son extension non seulement ad vitam mais aeternam (pour l’instant 70 ans après la mort des auteurs).

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