On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 11:21 +0530, Yogesh Girikumar wrote:
> > It is not a breach of copyright to
> > quote extracts of a creative work for the purpose of review or
> citation,
> > but it is certainly a breach to publish the whole of it or
> substantial
> > portions of it. This has been settled law for probably over a 100
> years.
> >
> 
> True. But that depends on whether news is considered creative work by
> the
> law! 

presentation of news is a creative work - the news itself may not be.
The fact that Baskar is a huge asset to open source in TN is news and
may be published, but the interview as presented is a creative work.
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves

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