Session 6: Copyrights in Publishing

The important issue of “Copyrights in Publishing” was addressed in Session Six of the Conference on Day 2.Panelist G. R. Raghavender,Registrar of Copyrights, elaborated in detail on the Copyright Law and it’s Amendments till date.

Pranesh Prakash in his presentation put forth a very interesting thought. “Each one of us is a criminal for violating the copyright law”, he said. He pointed out that the problem with this law is that it brings very different activities under one banner.

Mandira Sen presented a PowerPoint briefly explaining Section 2(m) of the Copyright Law 2010. Kannan Sundaram gave a satirical viewpoint of Tamil publishing industry. Vinutha Mallya chaired the session on “copyright issues in publishing