[INDOLOGY] protocol of Google Books ...?

[rajam]

Thank you George, Professor Dominik Wujastyk, Richard Mahoney for your response.

It’s interesting that there’s no similar complaint from anyone else! Mine must be so special that the hawky-Google can’t take its eyes off me!!!

I do have the copyright as you can see from the attached picture.



The original thesis is kept at UofPenn and microfilm copies were available from UMI, Ann Arbor for a minimal fee. A couple of years ago some other establishment started distributing PDF versions, I believe. Now Google.

I don’t understand how they can completely ignore the author in all this! I’m very tempted to go to Google head quarters which is close-by and have a talk with the big guys.

So, ok, I’ll send a written letter first to UMI and start from there.

Thanks and regards,
rajam

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Richard Mahoney <rmahoney at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
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