COPYRIGHT CONSCIOUS ?

COPYRIGHT   CONSCIOUS  ?

Dear Editor - Broadcaster - Publisher:

When you decide to obtain from World-Wide-Jobs and publish/broadcast

JOB  ADVT.  SUMMARY  ( JAS ),

would you be worried about violating COPYRIGHT ACT ?

Don’t .

There is no reason to worry, because:

• Section 13 of the Indian Copyright Act, states that copyright shall subsist throughout India in the following classes of works:

a)  Original literary, dramatic, the musical and artistic work

b)  Cinematographic Films

c)  Sound recording

·     A job-advt is not a “literary work”

·     “The Internet seems to hold the opposite promise; and indeed the free presence of a work on the internet may mean that the author intends others to disseminate the work”

( Courtesy: Kochar & Co./Eco-Times: Dec-26,2004 )

• There is no mis-representation/mutilation of the original content

• By clearly displaying the “source”  (name of concerned jobsite), we are not trying to hide anything – nor trying to pass-off JAS as our own/original content. We are giving credit to the sources.

·     We are not claiming any Intellectual Property Rights ( IPR) in respect of JAS

• Job-advts posted by corporate job-advertisers come under the category

PUBLIC  DOMAIN  INFORMATION

And, are meant for downloading.

·     Job Advts are not “Password – Protected”

·     Jobsites do not carry “Copyright Notice”,  forbidding copying.

·     In fact, jobsites “encourage” copying/ redistribution by explicitly stating under each job-advt.,  “ E-MAIL TO A FRIEND”

• Job-advertisers are keen/anxious to see that their job-advts reach out to millions of jobseekers. The more the merrier !

If job-advts reach many more candidates, they will get more resumes. We are “advancing” their “cause” – for FREE too !

• We are trying to serve a “Social Cause” by extending the reach of these job-advts to millions of unemployed persons in remote places – persons who have very little access to job- related information. We are providing them with a “level-playing-field”

• Examples of “Aggregation - Reproduction - Redistribution”

• filipdog.com                 (   Aggregator of job-advts  )
• grassisgreener.com      (  Aggregating job-advts from 100,000 job-boards  )
• employment 911.com   (  Aggregating job-advts from 350 jobsites   )
• thejobfactory.com        (  Aggregating job advts from 20,000 jobsites  )
• msnnews                (  Aggregating news from 3000 news-sites  )
• Google News                (    Aggregating news  from 4500 News sites   )

Hemen Parekh