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So, I was going through some links talking about IPR situations in India. In India people usually do not know what “copyright” is. Copyright is not even enforced to normal people. I guess its limited to large scale industries. The main reasons for this are mainly 2. 1: that people are not at all aware of it. 2: that India is a developing country, and enforcing copyright here will mean enforcing them to choose alternatives. I remember talking to an employee of this big firm (name/company-name compressed) who said that “we” know about piracy. Rather people sell pirated CDs in ground floor our office. “We” do not stop that, “we” encourage it.

I recently got to know about some talks titled “How to exploit IPR”. Apart from that while doing a study on newly made “Competition Act of India”, I got to know how India is bound to preserve IPR from abroad after signing TRIPS. India being one of the highly developing countries will soon start shifting towards bad business strategies. Though some efforts are being taken like CC India and Tempostand, (and soon free culture club at IITK ), we need to move fast. Its good to be ahead.

While doing some search I came by these 2 links which explain copyright/patent laws in India. Copyright period (in general) in India is “life+60″. And patent (in general) period is 20 years. And yeah, copyleft is copyrighted.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Patents-in-India:-Law-and-Procedure&id=69217

http://ezinearticles.com/?Copyright-in-India:-Law-and-Procedure&id=73309