Data sharing, copyright, dataverse, information, India, open educational resources, OER

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Information & Data Management:
IP Protection & Sharing
S.K. Soam
Head, ICM Division
NAARM, Hyderabad
sudhir.soam@icar.gov.in
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Indian copyright Act 1957
Amendments- 1981, 1984, 1994, (w.e.f. 15 January 2000), 2012.
Zanzeer-Prakash Mehra-1973-Salim-Javed Akhtar, Amit Mehra-2013-
Hindi/Telugu. Sholey-1975 vs Ramgopal Verma ki Aag-2007
What can be protected?
Original (not originality of ideas)
Not conflicting with Design Act and Trademark Act
Forms of protection
Literary- databases, computer programs, compilations
Artistic- Maps, photographs, DEM
Adaptations
Translation
What are the rights?
Exhaustion of Rights- adaptations?
Copyright- protections

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Copyright owners
• Rights on original work
• Rights on not-original work
– Abridgement/ translation etc /
commentary/compilation
• Authorship and ownership
• Assignment/ employment
• Joint authorship
– Narrator-writer
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Registration requirementSource: S.K. Soam (2013). Protection of GIS Products under Indian Copyright Act, In: Geospatial Technologies for Natural
Resources Management (eds SK Soam, PD Sreekanth, N.H. Rao), ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, NewIndia Publishing Agency,
New Delhi, p465
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Status Un-published Published
Not registered LOW MODERATE
Registered HIGH VERY HIGH
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DatabasesSource: S.K. Soam (2013). Protection of GIS Products under Indian Copyright Act, In: Geospatial Technologies for Natural
Resources Management (eds SK Soam, PD Sreekanth, N.H. Rao), ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, NewIndia Publishing Agency,
New Delhi, p466
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Step 1: Facts
Data Sets
A bridged data sets
Step 3: Coordinates
Integrated data Sets
Database / compilation
Step 2: Selection
Step 4: Arrangement and value addition
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Computer ProgramsSource: S.K. Soam (2013). Protection of GIS Products under Indian Copyright Act, In: Geospatial Technologies for Natural
Resources Management (eds SK Soam, PD Sreekanth, N.H. Rao), ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, NewIndia Publishing Agency,
New Delhi, p468
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CompilationsSource: S.K. Soam (2013). Protection of GIS Products under Indian Copyright Act, In: Geospatial Technologies for Natural
Resources Management (eds SK Soam, PD Sreekanth, N.H. Rao), ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, NewIndia Publishing Agency,
New Delhi, p467
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Adaptation
Photo by Steve Mc Curry, 1984, National Geographic Rock picture at Albany Bulb, California
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AdaptationSource: S.K. Soam (2013). Protection of GIS Products under Indian Copyright Act, In: Geospatial Technologies for Natural
Resources Management (eds SK Soam, PD Sreekanth, N.H. Rao), ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, NewIndia Publishing Agency,
New Delhi, p467
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Photographs
Bliss- XP wall paper by O’Rear,
1996, Sonoma Valley, California
Mahatma Gandhi, Dandi March,
by Unknown, 1930
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Who copyrighted Email?
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Who copyrighted Pentium chip?
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Copyright vs PatentSource: S.K. Soam (2013). Protection of GIS Products under Indian Copyright Act, In: Geospatial Technologies for Natural
Resources Management (eds SK Soam, PD Sreekanth, N.H. Rao), ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, NewIndia Publishing Agency,
New Delhi, p471
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Parameter Indian Copyright Act Patent as per TRIPs
Creator’s rights Protected without registration also Protected after grant
Term of protection During life time and 60 years after
death for literary works
20 years
Scope of protection Expression of idea Implementation of idea
Originality/Novelty Original creation, no formal search,
originality not lost after patent grant
Prior art search, novelty lost after
copyright registration
Protection territory In Berne convention countries Territorial
Cost of protection Low High
Fair use Available No
Innocent infringement Available (s 58) No
Infringement action Include criminal proceedings Civil suit
Exclusive license Yes Yes
Royalty in general
terms
Involvement of copyright societies
and copyright board
Between the parties on the basis of
mutually agreed terms
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Creative Commons
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1.Attribution: Use, re-use, remix, build upon, even commercial
but give credit to Author
2. Attribution-No Derivatives: pass unchanged and in whole
including commercial but with credit to Author
3. Attribution-Non commercial-Share Alike: You need to put your
work under same conditions whatever build upon or remix
4. Attribution-Share Alike: Like 4 but can use commercial also
5. Attribution-Non commercial: Like 1 but non commercial
6. Attribution-Non commercial-No Derivatives: Most restrictive,
like 2 but no commercial.
GATS and Agricultural Higher Education in India by S.K. Soam and Kalpana Sastry
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available
at www.naarm.ernet.in.

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Dataverse

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Why?
Who?
How?
What?
© S.K.Soam, NAARM
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