RE: [rti_india] Re: Rules Governing republishing of Information acquired under RTI

Friday, May 21, 2010

RE: [rti_india] Re: Rules Governing republishing of Information acquired under RTI

Dear Sarbajit,

You need to read my arguments carefully before jumping to conclusions. I have made a clear distinction between information where IPRs may exist and where IPRs cannot be clearly identified and how OSA is not a factor to be taken into consideration for such matters. I have clearly mentioned in my previous email where intellectual property rights are involved the issue of mass distribution and commercial re-use of data obtained under RTI Act becomes more serious. This possibility I have recognised while you may have missed reading it. Now you are moving out of OSA's domain and entering the IPR domain to win your argument. A common way of obfuscating the issue to win an argument is to shift the baseline. That is what you frequently do. It may work in courts, it does little good for public debate where non-specialist members look for some plain language guidance.

Thanks

Venkat

From: rti_india@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rti_india@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sarbajitr
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:13 AM
To: rti_india@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [rti_india] Re: Rules Governing republishing of Information acquired under RTI

Dear Venkat

1) I am not participating in this (or any) debate as "Moderator". In fact I do not even claim to be "first among equals".

2) Due to shortage of time, I propose a civilised way to settle this debate finally - as follows.

A) Venkatesh will apply to the CPIO Bureau of Indian Standards for the set of 6 (at last count) CDs containing all BIS Standards at the prescribed rate of s 50 per diskette. As per the RTI Act this should cost about Rs.300. It is undeniable that these standards are of larger public interest (so there should be no problem for Venkatesh to get around the BIS' standard defence of 8(1)(d), my favourite exemption). It may help Venkatesh to know that many P/As have independently uploaded individual BIS standards used by their employees to their own websites.

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