Indian Copyright Bill Declares Private, Personal Copying "Fair Dealing" 192
asp7yxia writes "India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be 'fair dealing' (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright."
+1 post of referral mastery (Score:5, Informative)
A link to boingboing that links to a blog that links to the WSJ blog post [livemint.com] that actually talks about the topic. Way to go.
Re:What about ACTA ? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Indian Copyright Bill (Score:1, Informative)
I don't think the argument is about being "better workers".
Hire a professional company in India that charges the same (or economically equivalent) amount that and American company does, then compare the standard of quality.
If you want work done cheap, expect cheap work to be done.
When people take pride in the work that they do, you can expect a standard of quality. Sadly, though, this is not the common case in the Indian services industry where most people do a job they hate, with insane hours, solely for the economical sustenance.
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Re:Wonder why ... (Score:3, Informative)
Think back to pharma in India.
India needed cheap, quality drugs without the R and D backend to treat its population.
India did not have an export market for its own R and D, just the tech to produce very cheap drugs.
So India pumped out drugs for its needs and noted other countries wanted them too.
Suddenly what was an internal medical matter was a profit making dream.
With profit came R and D and finally India had its own big pharma.
Then came the fun part. India slipped from a free for all to a drug protecting world player with the international standing to enforce R and D.
The profits from internal use where looking to be less than the projected profits from new drugs to the protected world market.
Until India has their own exporting Adobe, MS, Apple ect, why pay for software on the international market?
All paying for very expensive imported software does is hurt the current account deficit.
Copy it for free, let your children and pros learn.
When India has a software exporting sector, then they will do the math for trade protection.
Re:A surprisingly well thought out law (Score:4, Informative)
Not surprising if you realize that third-world countries are badly hurt by IP hoarding. It means they have to pay too much for books, technology, drugs, etc., unless they choose to pirate — which, of course, they often do.
I'm particularly grateful to India for their knockoff drugs. I don't understand all the legalities, but because of the difference in the way patents work in India, it's perfectly legal to reverse-engineer a patented drug and invent your own process for making it. In 2005, they changed the law so that patent holders can force makers of such unauthorized generics to pay royalties, but they still can't stop them altogether, the way they can in the U.S. As a result, unauthorized Indian generics are available for many drugs still under patent, at extremely low prices.
This affected me personally a few years back when I was unemployed, close to broke, and needed to be using a fairly expensive drug on a daily basis. It was particularly galling that the original patent on the drug had expired, but the company had managed to create new patents on the manufacturing process that still gave them exclusive rights. Fortunately, the same drug was available from India for a fraction of the cost. The downside was that my phone was obtained by various mercenary Indian call centers, possibly including the one you saw in Slumdog Millionair.
Re:Indian Copyright Bill (Score:5, Informative)