India questions the Google Book Settlement

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In three series of half-day seminars in December 2009 and January 2010, the Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO) has discussed with publishers and authors both the basic copyright laws, the issue of secondary rights, and the Google Book Settlement. The IRRO is the Indian organisation that has the mandate to grant rights belonging to publishers and authors creators that are its and its international affiliates’ members. It is part of the international system for enforcing secondary copyrights such as photocopying and downloading from the internet or re-using content that has already been published. The RRO’s is a copyright society and corresponding copyright societies of this international network have agreements to collect on behalf of the correspondent organisations and to remit these for distribution to the publishers and author/creators in each territory. The distribution itself is done according to an algorithm decided by the board of the copyright society (in our case the IRRO) in each country which consists of publishers and authors. ...cont´d

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