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Copying textbooks is explicitly legal in India as part of case law, as "fair dealing". This was decided in 2016 and involved Oxford University Press and Cambrid
by mauvia 3y ago
Copying textbooks is explicitly legal in India as part of case law, as "fair dealing". This was decided in 2016 and involved Oxford University Press and Cambridge University press, so the opponents were pretty powerful overall.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/University-copying-books-for-teaching-is-not-copyright-violation-Delhi-HC/article14984190.ece https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/University-copyin...
Wiki article because the hindu is paywalled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford_v._Rameshwari_Photocopy_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford_v._Ramesh...
- pessimizer 3y agoFascinating. Was this the basis for Sci-Hub's optimism in India? https://news.careers360.com/sci-hub-scihub-libgen-alexandra-elbakyan-lawsuit-india-delhi-high-court-du-sol-delhi-university-iiser-jnu-mit-iit-science-research-elsevier https://news.careers360.com/sci-hub-scihub-libgen-alexandra-...
- mauvia 3y agoThe photocopy court case is mentioned in that article as a "small precedent", yeah. Though I can't speculate on how the sci-hub case will actually go since the main reason copying was allowed for students according to the arguments was that before photocopiers existed, they were expected to copy the things themselves.