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

[qua non]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:46 AM, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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>> Where is this agreement?
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> 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.
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> Reference link to understand copy right act of India - look for Authorship
> and ownership: http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/handbook.html
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> Adding a FAQ here from the website for your reference as well:
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> *Who is the owner of copyright in the work of a public undertaking? *
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Majority of the volunteers don't even know what PSSI is. They worked for
PyCon India "the event" not the org behind it.

There was no undertaking that the volunteer work done was for PSSI, no
agreement.
If PSSI would like to claim ownership to volunteer work then please have
the decency to explicitly state it in a license that people have to sign
before contributing.

*Why argue against adding a explicit agreement ? **This would hep both
sides be clear.*

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.
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>> To be constructive about this , If this is the stance of PSSI then maybe
>> there should be a "Explicit", agreement for contributors on github.
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>> http://copyrightlaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Lesley-PDF2.pdf
>> maybe something similar to this.
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> Vijay
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