[INDOLOGY] protocol of Google Books ...?

[Richard Mahoney]

Dear Rajam,

Sometimes the varsity research repository provides details on rights,
e.g.:

UC Digital Theses - Copyright Provisions
http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml


Best, Richard



On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:33:33 -0600
Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​Copyright is a sneaky creature.  It's likely that you own the
> copyright of your thesis, but not certain.  If you received a
> financial grant ​during the time you wrote it, then it might be "work
> for hire" and the grant body might own the copyright.  Or the
> university might own the copyright. That's quite likely, in fact.
> Technically, universities own the copyright of all work written by
> any of their employees, including professors.  Most universities
> ignore this fact; the more legally-aware one's have a
> copyright-waiver in their employment terms somewhere.   Most
> universities also require students to deposit a copy of their theses
> with the university, physically or as a PDF; that too may involve a
> transfer of rights.  So, it's possible that a university has the
> copyright to your thesis, in which case, they also have the right to
> give Google permission to copy it.
> 
> I have written to ScribD in the past, asking them to take down dozens
> of my articles that had been reproduced there.  The process was a bit
> time-consuming, but ScribD did comply eventually and the illegal
> copies diasappeared.
> 
> I'm sure you can write to Google and ask them to take down your
> thesis.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk*
> <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk> Singhmar Chair in
> Classical Indian Society and Polity Department of History and
> Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/> University of
> Alberta, Canada
> 
> <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/goog_1525257691>
> ​sas.ualberta.ca​
> 
> 
> On 19 October 2016 at 19:46, rajam <rajam at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > I don’t understand the protocol of Google Books.
> >
> > Recently, I came to know that Google Books have PDF-ed my Ph.D.
> > thesis and publicized it.
> >
> > I was shocked to know about it.
> >
> > 1. What happened to the copyright to the author, me in this case?
> >
> > 2. Authors may have plans to revise their graduate-level theses and
> > improve on them before bringing them to the public. To grab such
> > effort in the middle is like collapsing a quiche in the making or
> > thwarting a fetus’ growth. Absolutely unacceptable.
> >
> > Has something like this happened to anyone of our colleagues?
> > Please let me know how to teach Google Books to follow scholarly
> > norms.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > rajam
> >
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