Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain

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From: Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <[email protected]>
Date: 2016-01-13 16:29 GMT+05:30
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2000+ books nationalized by The Government
of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain
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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, 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 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



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