Guest guest Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 SrI: Dear Sriman Anbil SrinivAsan Swamy : Thanks for your mail . I was not aware of the 60 year limit on copy righted material . Many times , the descendants of great AchAryAs have problems in finding funds for printing out of print volumes .Some times , the subject matter needs some level of erudition that the content would be of limited interest from a printing cost point of view and recovery of costs . Foundations have been created for this , where SishyAs and abhimAnis contribute funds to cover the expenses and out of print books are released on important Thirunakshatram days . Our ebook series have been created to preserve and protect these treasures to make this precious content available digitally and globally . Scholars as well as beginners can use them . The important point is to get permission from copyright owners and be respectful of their wishes . Sriman Balaji Sunderrajan of Toronto has violated wilfully many of these points and has released material with no regard for copyrights in the past few months . Two recent cases in point are : (1) Upanishad Sangraham by Sri UtthamUr Swami (2) The release of VishNu PurANam authored by Prakrutham Srimath Azhagiya Singar during His PoorvAsramam days , whose copy right is held by Sri Nrisimha Priya Trust . It is sold by Sri Ahobila Mutt , North Anerica to raise funds for Kaimakryams of Srimath Azhagiya Singar . (3) ThiruppAvai UpanyAsams by Srimath Azhagiya Singar : Same Background and same violation ! I will not be surprised if Sri Nrisimha Priya Trust Executives would take legal actions against Sri Balaji Sunderrajan of Toronto , the owner of maransdog.com web site , where such whole copy right violations have taken place and recorded . As an appointed Member of the Sri Nrisimha Priya Trust , I will recommend to the Sri Nrismha Priya Board to take strong actions against Sri Balaji Sunderrajan so that the material on Sri VishNu PurANam and ThiruppAvai UpanyAsams are removed from his site . The comparison of Sri VishNu PurANam to RaaNi comics by Sri Balaji Sunderrajan is one of the most offensive characterizations of this most revered Saatvika PurANam used by great VaishNavite AchAryas . It is a tasteles remark . Chakkiriya Owners have protested in the past against copy right violations of Sri Balaji Sunderrajan and have not taken any legal actions sofar. While we appreciate Sri Balaji's unbridled enthusiasm " to educate" Sri VaishNavAs , we can not understand his total insensitivity to the authors and creators of Intellectual Property and respect their legitimate , legal rights as copyright owners . It is as simple as that . Sri Balaji should clear from here on every thing with the owners of copyrights and get releases .If they do not wish to give him permission , he should respect their views independent of any reason they might have . This is basic ethical approach to be followed in relating to any copyrighted material . We will be bringing out important Sri Sookthis covered by VaikunTha Vaasi Sri TatachAr of Thirumalai and have obtained the permission of Family members to do so .The Family Members are happy that the writings of such a great scholar are being made available widely . I thank Sri Adisesh for getting this permission from the Family Members at Thirumala. We will be releasing UpanyAsa Manjari , a collection of UpanyAsams by Mahaa MahOpAdyaya Sri PerukkAraNai Swamy with the help of Sri Gosakan . Swamy has given permission and is happy about his upanyAsams being made avialable to a wider audience . In summary , let us observe a code of conduct in handling copy righted material ; otherwise it will be tantamount to piracy . NamO SrI VenaktESAya , V.Sadagopan http://www.sundarasimham.org http://www.ahobilavalli.org http://www.srihyagrivan.org - srinivasan sowmianarayanan yennappan Friday, February 20, 2009 1:45 AM Fw: "Ramarajya" Dear Sri Raghuveeradayal Swamin, Please check the year of publication. If it is beyond 60 years back, copyright law does not apply as copyright is valid for 60 years unless a new edition is published later by the original publishers. If the book is published by any corporate publishers you have to get the permission from them for putting the book on website. Pl. check up. Otherwise you can give information about the book like the exact title, author's name, publisher's name and address and the year of publication and a brief summary of the contents. Nowadays even the descendents of the author are touchy about their rights over old books written by their forefathers, but remain uninterested in republishing the same. It is unfortunate that many such works go into oblivion because of this. In this way, we have lost so many works from time immemorial. I respect your eagerness to bring such works to light. Regards, Connect with friends all over the world. Get India Messenger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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