[INDOLOGY] Highlights from the Sanskrit corpora

[Jonathan Silk]

Dear Dominik,
This raises a fundamental question: I have been under the impression that
while one can claim copyright (what you note in your mail with (C) ) over
work like critical notes, annotations, translation etc, one *cannot* claim
copyright over editions of classical texts. (I'm not debating whether this
is reasonable or not and the effort and expertise it takes to create an
edition, just reporting my understanding of the law). Therefore, according
to my understanding, if I take your edition of a text, and type it up
*without any notes etc* i can publish it.
I suppose --maybe I am just ignorant here--that this has never been
litigated because there is no money in it for anyone. After all, who would
go to court to prevent me from copying a critical edition of the
Ṛkpratiśākhya?
I realize I haven't framed this as a question, but what is your take?
Jonathan

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:14 AM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 07:40, Martin Gluckman via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Two further submissions received to add to the list (thank you to all who
>> have responded):
>>
>> 1.Mahabharata for its general and omnipresent influence on all kinds of
>> cultural and literary creativity.
>>
>
> Note that the Mahābhārata text of the critical Pune edition is (C) BORI
> and is not meant to be distributed or hosted on other websites.  It is made
> exclusively available from John Smith's Bombay website
> <http://bombay.indology.info/mahabharata/statement.html>.  As the accompanying
> documentation <http://bombay.indology.info/mahabharata/text/UD/MBh00.txt>
> says,
>
> The electronic text of the Mahabharata is Copyright (C) The Bhandarkar
> Oriental Research Institute (BORI), Pune. This authorised and regularly
> updated text is available only via the web pagehttp://bombay.indology.info/mahabharata/statement.html. Please do not provide
> copies of the text to others.
>
> In other words, help yourself, but only from that Bombay website.
>
> This is why the Puna Mbh has never been offered through SARIT.  The text at SARIT <http://sarit.indology.info/mahabharata-devanagari.xml?view=div> is the 1906-1910 edition from Nirnayasagara Press,
> Bombay, "A New Edition Mainly Based on the South Indian Texts, with Footnotes and Readings."
>
> I'm fully aware that the Pune Mbh has long ago escaped into the wild and is offered everywhere.  I think that's a wonderful thing for
> scholarship (though bad for version control).  But it does not reflect the wishes of BORI.  I'm just sayin'
>
> Best,
>
> Dominik
>
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