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

[vijay kumar]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:25 AM, qua non <akshayaurora at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  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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Thanks,
Vijay
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