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Dear Sriman Anbil SrinivAsan Swamy :
 
Thanks for your mail .
 
I was not aware of the 60 year limit
on copy righted material . 
 
Many times , the descendants of great
AchAryAs have problems in finding funds for
printing out of print volumes .Some times ,
the subject matter needs some level of erudition that
the content would be of limited interest from
a printing cost point of view and recovery of
costs . Foundations have been created for
this , where SishyAs and abhimAnis contribute funds
to cover the expenses and out of print books are
released on important Thirunakshatram days .
 
Our ebook series have been created to preserve
and protect these treasures to make this precious content
available digitally and globally . Scholars  as well as beginners
can use them .
 
The important point is to get permission from copyright
owners and be respectful of their wishes .
 
Sriman Balaji Sunderrajan of Toronto has violated
wilfully many of these points and has released
material with no regard for copyrights in the past few
months .
 
Two recent cases in point are :
 
(1) Upanishad Sangraham by Sri UtthamUr Swami
 
(2) The release of VishNu PurANam authored by
Prakrutham Srimath Azhagiya Singar during
His PoorvAsramam days , whose copy right
is held by Sri Nrisimha Priya Trust . It is sold by
Sri Ahobila Mutt , North Anerica to raise funds for
Kaimakryams of Srimath Azhagiya Singar .
(3) ThiruppAvai UpanyAsams by Srimath
Azhagiya Singar : Same Background and
same violation !
 
I will not be surprised if Sri Nrisimha Priya Trust
Executives would take legal actions against
Sri Balaji Sunderrajan of Toronto , the owner of
maransdog.com web site , where such whole
copy right violations have taken place and recorded .
 
As an appointed  Member of the Sri Nrisimha Priya Trust ,
I will recommend to the Sri Nrismha Priya Board to
take strong actions against Sri Balaji Sunderrajan
so that the material on Sri VishNu PurANam and
ThiruppAvai UpanyAsams are removed from his site .
 
The comparison of Sri VishNu PurANam to RaaNi comics
by Sri Balaji Sunderrajan is one of the most offensive
characterizations of this most revered Saatvika PurANam
used by great VaishNavite AchAryas . It is a tasteles
remark . 
 
Chakkiriya Owners have protested in the past
against copy right violations of Sri Balaji Sunderrajan
and have not taken any legal actions sofar.
 
While we appreciate Sri Balaji's unbridled enthusiasm
" to educate"  Sri VaishNavAs , we can not understand his
total insensitivity to the authors and creators of Intellectual
Property and respect their legitimate , legal rights as
copyright owners . It is as simple as that .
 
Sri Balaji should clear from here on every thing with
the owners of copyrights and get releases .If they do not
wish to give him permission , he should respect their
views independent of any reason they might have .
 
This is basic ethical approach to be followed in
relating to any copyrighted material .
 
We will be bringing out important Sri Sookthis covered by
VaikunTha Vaasi Sri TatachAr of Thirumalai and have obtained
the permission of Family members to do so .The Family Members are
happy that the writings of such a great scholar are being
made available widely . I thank Sri Adisesh for getting
this permission from the Family Members at Thirumala.
 
We will be releasing UpanyAsa Manjari , a collection of
UpanyAsams by Mahaa MahOpAdyaya Sri PerukkAraNai
Swamy with the help of Sri Gosakan . Swamy has given
permission and is happy about his upanyAsams being
made avialable to a wider audience .
 
In summary , let us observe a code of conduct in
handling copy righted material ; otherwise it will
be tantamount to piracy .
 
NamO SrI VenaktESAya ,
V.Sadagopan
http://www.sundarasimham.org
http://www.ahobilavalli.org
http://www.srihyagrivan.org   
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:45 AM
Subject: Fw: [Oppiliappan] "Ramarajya"

 
Dear Sri Raghuveeradayal Swamin, Please check the year of publication. If it is beyond 60 years back, copyright law does not apply as copyright is valid for 60 years unless a new edition is published later by the original publishers. If the book is published by any corporate publishers you have to get the permission from them for putting the book on website. Pl. check up. Otherwise you can give information about the book like the exact title, author's name, publisher's name and address and the year of publication and a brief summary of the contents.
Nowadays even the descendents of the author are touchy about their rights over old books written by their forefathers, but remain uninterested in republishing the same. It is unfortunate that many such works go into oblivion because of this. In this way, we have lost so many works from time immemorial.
I respect your eagerness to bring such works to light.
Regards,


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