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
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