This is a very small number considering there are around 18 lakh hits for Kannada every day."ĭirector of the Department Kannada and Culture KA Dayanand told Bangalore Mirror that they are currently only uploading books to which the department holds the copyright. So while the number of Wikipedia articles in other languages are increasing in leaps and bounds, there are only about 18,000 Kannada articles. Kannada also has 600 registered editors, but only about 22 are active. "Malayalam Wikipedia has nearly 1,000 editors. Pavanaja, who is also a popular contributor of Kannada information on Wikipedia, feels the 'free and open' knowledge movement in Kannada and especially Wikipedia is hampered by lack of contributors. The rest of the books for which CC licence is provided will have to be typed again and uploaded to Wikisource." They have given us soft copies of some of the books.
Any information that is out of copyright is uploaded to. "What the department has given is rights to re-published versions of the classics and also the commentary, criticism, essays on these classics they have published.
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But when someone publishes even a classic, they hold the copyright to the information they have keyed in and edited," said Pavanaja who is also a member of the advisory committee to the state government of Kannada software development. So technically, classics are out of copyright but this applies to the text only. "According to India's copyright laws, any book will be out of copyright after 60 years.
Soon, all these will be available for anyone who wants to read them online. The books released by the department include 35 volumes of the Samagra Dasa Sahitya (complete Dasa literature), 15 volumes of Samagra Vachana Samputa (complete Vachana literature), 36 volumes of Rigveda Samhita, Kumaravyasa Bharata, Jaimini Bharata, Nalacharitre and Mohana Tarangini. With this licence, the source copy (soft copy) of the books will be made available. The department then decided to give CC licence to 105 books last month. Pavanaja, along with some other Wikipedia contributors, approached the department to digitise and re-release Kannada classics. The initiative, which aims to enrich Kannada language and culture, is the brainchild of UB Pavanaja, a Bangalore-based writer. The licence entitles anyone "to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs." The licence is not limited to use in Wikipedia. The treasure trove, which includes a good mix of classics and rhythmic writings, have been digitised by the Department of Kannada and Culture and some of them put up on Wikisource, the website from where details for Wikipedia pages are sourced.
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Kannada book lovers will now be able to legally download more than 100 books that have been released by the state government under the Creative Commons licence. The article was published in Bangalore Mirror on September 29, 2014.
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