Indian Copyright Bill Declares Private, Personal Copying "Fair Dealing"

asp7yxia writes "India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be 'fair dealing' (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright."

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Re:SuddenOutbreakOf...

[timmarhy]

yes, a profound culture that still enforces a cast system, which says if you are born to a family that eats rats, that's all your ever allowed to be. one that uses child labour and has an active human slave trade.

lets not start gushing too much just because they appear to have made a law that's popular with /. think.

Re:Indian Copyright Bill

[blackraven14250]

the overall quality of living actually is same or even lesser in developed economies compared to developing economies*.

I'm fairly sure that, having seen what the Mumbai slums look like, that they're about as awesome as being homeless. When you consider that there's 5 times the number of people in Dharavi (600,000) than are chronically homeless in the US (120,000), I don't know how you can make a statement about quality of living being better there.

Unless you go the subjective route, of course. Then, you're talking about interviewing whole loads of people that only have an experience in one place, and can't form any sort of opinion based on facts.

Pakistan wins!

[zmollusc]

Looks to me like Pakistan has used secret agents to push this bill through. If people are allowed to make backups of dvds they own, India's whole society will collapse. I give it a week.