[Inpycon] Copyright violation of PyCon India website by blockchain 2017 conference organizer

[Sreekanth S Rameshaiah]

Request that we bring this discussions to closure.

Sree

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 at 11:47 vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:25 AM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  Just to make it clear, even if an individual volunteer from Delhi had
>>> done the website work all alone, it was still done for PyCon India and the
>>> copyrights still lies with PSSI and PyCon India.
>>
>>
>> Where is this agreement?
>>
>
> When you do volunteer work for an orgnaisation even if its NGO, legally
> the organisation is the first owner and in turn hold the copyright for the
> work.
>
> Reference link to understand copy right act of India - look for Authorship
> and ownership: http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/handbook.html
>
> Adding a FAQ here from the website for your reference as well:
>
> *Who is the owner of copyright in the work of a public undertaking? *
>
> In the case of a work made or first published by or under the direction or
> control of any public undertaking, such public undertaking shall, in the
> absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the first owner of the
> copyright therein.
>
>>
>> To be constructive about this , If this is the stance of PSSI then maybe
>> there should be a "Explicit", agreement for contributors on github.
>>
>> http://copyrightlaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Lesley-PDF2.pdf
>> maybe something similar to this.
>>
>>
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