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Permalink Reply by kishore sakariya on June 23, 2015 at 20:20

GM Madam,

As per my information there is no separate law in India for digitization of material, but you have to follow the Indian copy right act.

see the link 

http://copyright.gov.in/

http://copyright.gov.in/documents/handbook.html

Another article which my useful for u.

http://goo.gl/tsE1w3

-Kishor Sakariya

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Permalink Reply by SHIROMANI BAJAJ on June 23, 2015 at 23:36

I understand all the copyright are made taking into consideration of the public libraries because in the latest amendment I saw it was specifically mentioned about the digitization of Public library. copyright act  applicable to public libraries.

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Permalink Reply by SHIROMANI BAJAJ on June 24, 2015 at 18:54

Thanks Mr. Kishor. I read all the points. I understand our library  is not covered for digitization as we have 14000 books on different subjects. it is very difficult to ask permission for each author for having copyright to get the same digitized.

Any other way if you know, how can I get my library books digitized without any legal complication, please tell.

Thanks for all information you provided.

Regards,

Shiromani

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Permalink Reply by kishore sakariya on June 25, 2015 at 1:19

Madam,

You can not digitize any book cover to cover without taking prior permission of copyright holder, but you can digitize some of the pages as per your requirement, which is consider as a "fair use"

Thanks,

Kishor Sakariya

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on June 24, 2015 at 22:39

Dear Ms. Bajaj,

I have gone through your post.

May I suggest you to please consult the article by Dr.. K. Rama Patnaik in Economic & Political Weekly  (EPW) Vol. 49 #51 (20-12-2014) pp. 54-61.

You specially see the Notes & Reference parts where you will get important insight to Copyright issues (#2 in Notes) and some excellent articles by E.F. Duranceau and Zhang & Eschenfelder. In case you do not have access to  EPW, I can send you the pdf of the article.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by SHIROMANI BAJAJ on June 24, 2015 at 23:14

Sure, Sir. I will check this  and hope I will get information which I need. Thanks a lot Sir.

Regards,

Shiromani

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Permalink Reply by SHIROMANI BAJAJ on June 28, 2015 at 18:02

Sir,

I feel bad in troubling you, but I need it. I could not arrange the above mentioned article. it is not available on internet also. Can you please help me in getting this particular article or suggest from where I can have this. I will be grateful to you, Sir.

With sincere regards,

Shiromani

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on June 28, 2015 at 18:16

Dear Ms. Bajaj

Please see your mail box.

Regards,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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