Fate of IA

[K S Kannan]

News : Internet Archives  forced to remove 500k books!

What is the fate of IA ?

The courts seem to be taking a negative stand on it.

Is IA's defense in the court inadequate,

or some element/degree of illegality undermining its project ?

See these also:

https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/copyright-us-court-rules-against-internet-archive/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754229

https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringement-books-lawsuit/

A recent item - dt Jun 26 = today :

https://blog.archive.org/tag/lawsuit/

--

Dr. K.S.Kannan  D.Litt.

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Chair Professor (Retd.), IIT-Madras.

Member, Advisory Board, "Prof. A K Singh AURO Chair of Indic Studies", AURO University, Surat.
Member, Expert Committee for Review of Criticism of Indian Knowledge Traditions, Central Sanskrit University (under MoE, GoI), Ganganath Jha Campus, Prayagraj.
Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Heritage Science and Technology, IIT Hyderabad.

Nominated Member, Academic Committee, Kavi Kula Guru Kalidasa University, Ramtek.
Member, Academic Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana.
Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology.
Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla.

Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.

Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.

Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.

https://sites.google.com/view/kskannan

[K S Kannan]

More particularly, how have we been affected right now : have Sanskrit books/

related publications pertaining to Indic heritage been removed, too ?:

how much has been lost?

Or, has the focus been on (non-Indological) Western publications, primarily?

Any way of getting to know which of the 

books of the above categories removed now/recently?

And any way to retrieve them?

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bvparishat+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bvparishat/CAN47gm6DpsY_1Ydby4QP1PiPR1w43agcgfJ_kUWYerTbCvaRDA%40mail.gmail.com.

[K S Kannan]

Incidentally, it may be an interesting topic for some bibliophile's research :

to trace thus far the growth of Indic/Indological literature

in the realm of Internet Archives (including the history of additions/deletions),

and shedding much light on who all among Indians/foreigners have

contributed (how many/how important) texts (annotated/unannotated),

critical essays etc. etc. under various DDC headings etc.

[Abhay Rathore]

So far as I've seen it, there hasn't been any meaningful difference on the Sanskrit books. About every one of them is still up there. This apparently is about Western publishers and not really those from India. I consider that the removal may have affected titles from the plaintiffs alone, but the rest of it is still there.

[Sastry MVR]

Namaste,

IA has definitely been of great help for archiving our ancient texts and  till this date a lot of volunteers are scanning and uploading scanned books. With IA running into risk of being shut down or curtailed which could lead to reduced funding to sustain it, I suggest considering digital libraries based in India to mitigate this risk. 

One such India based digital library is Samskrita Bharati’s   “ebharati Sampat- digital library” (ebharatisampat.in).  Ancient sanskrit texts are scanned, uploaded and later digitized into searchable unicode texts. With the support of IKS Div (AICTE) several books have been digitised in the last 2 years. 200,000 pages of digitization is planned in this fiscal year.  I am leading the project for Samskrita Bharati  based at Aksharam, Bangalore. 

We would be more than happy to support efforts of organisations and individuals working tirelessly in visiting libraries and scanning  rare books by storing/archiving them on  ebharati sampat platform.  We only check for duplicates and copyrights before accepting pdfs.  Focus is on Sanskrit Texts. 

Regards

MVR Sastry

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 27, 2024, at 4:44 AM, bvpar...@googlegroups.com wrote:



bvpar...@googlegroups.com

Google Groups

Topic digest
View all topics

• Copies?--the taittiriya pratisakhya with the commentaries of somayarya and gargya gopalayajvan - 1 Update
• Fate of IA - 4 Updates
• Reflexive Constructions in Pāṇini - 1 Update
• Book on Linguistics - 2 Updates
• Ashtadhyayi as Software - 1 Update

Copies?--the taittiriya pratisakhya with the commentaries of somayarya and gargya gopalayajvan

venkat veeraraghavan <vvenk...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 09:35AM -0700 Dear Vidvans,   Namaste.   I am looking for physical copies of the book   "the taittiriya pratisakhya with the commentaries of somayarya and gargya gopalayajvan".   Or atleast a full, good quality scan.   It was published as part of the Government Oriental Library Series.   Thanks in advance,   Kind Regards,   Venkat

Back to top

Fate of IA

K S Kannan <ks.kann...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 12:34PM +0530

News : Internet Archives forced to remove 500k books!   What is the fate of IA ? The courts seem to be taking a negative stand on it.   Is IA's defense in the court inadequate, or some element/degree of illegality undermining its project ?   See these also: https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/03/copyright-us-court-rules-against-internet-archive/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754229 https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringement-books-lawsuit/

*A recent item - dt Jun 26 = today :*

https://blog.archive.org/tag/lawsuit/     -- Dr. K.S.Kannan D.Litt.   Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Chair Professor (Retd.), IIT-Madras. Member, Advisory Board, "Prof. A K Singh AURO Chair of Indic Studies", AURO University, Surat. Member, Expert Committee for Review of Criticism of Indian Knowledge Traditions, Central Sanskrit University (under MoE, GoI), Ganganath Jha Campus, Prayagraj. Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Heritage Science and Technology, IIT Hyderabad. Nominated Member, Academic Committee, Kavi Kula Guru Kalidasa University, Ramtek. Member, Academic Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana. Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology. Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla. Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.   Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.   Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.   https://sites.google.com/view/kskannan

K S Kannan <ks.kann...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 01:18PM +0530 More particularly, how have* we *been affected right now : have Sanskrit

books/ related publications pertaining to Indic heritage been removed, too ?: how much has been lost?   Or, has the focus been on (non-Indological) Western publications, primarily?   Any way of getting to know which of the books of the above categories removed now/recently?   And any way to retrieve them?   On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 12:35 PM K S Kannan <ks.kann...@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bvparishat/CAN47gm6DpsY_1Ydby4QP1PiPR1w43agcgfJ_kUWYerTbCvaRDA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bvparishat/CAN47gm6DpsY_1Ydby4QP1PiPR1w43agcgfJ_kUWYerTbCvaRDA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > .

-- Dr. K.S.Kannan D.Litt.   ​Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Chair Professor (Retd.), IIT-Madras. Member, Advisory Board, "Prof. A K Singh AURO Chair of Indic Studies", AURO University, Surat. Member, Expert Committee for Review of Criticism of Indian Knowledge Traditions, Central Sanskrit University (under MoE, GoI), Ganganath Jha Campus, Prayagraj. Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Heritage Science and Technology, IIT Hyderabad. Nominated Member, Academic Committee, Kavi Kula Guru Kalidasa University, Ramtek. Member, Academic Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana. Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology. Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla. Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.   Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.   Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.   https://sites.google.com/view/kskannan

K S Kannan <ks.kann...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 01:38PM +0530 Incidentally, it may be an interesting *topic for *some bibliophile's *research *:

to trace thus far the growth of Indic/Indological literature in the realm of Internet Archives (including the history of additions/deletions), and shedding much light on who all among Indians/foreigners have contributed (how many/how important) texts (annotated/unannotated), critical essays etc. etc. under various DDC headings etc.

> Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.   > Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.   > https://sites.google.com/view/kskannan   -- Dr. K.S.Kannan D.Litt.   ​Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Chair Professor (Retd.), IIT-Madras. Member, Advisory Board, "Prof. A K Singh AURO Chair of Indic Studies", AURO University, Surat. Member, Expert Committee for Review of Criticism of Indian Knowledge Traditions, Central Sanskrit University (under MoE, GoI), Ganganath Jha Campus, Prayagraj. Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Heritage Science and Technology, IIT Hyderabad. Nominated Member, Academic Committee, Kavi Kula Guru Kalidasa University, Ramtek. Member, Academic Council, Veda Vijnana Shodha Samsthana. Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology. Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla. Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.   Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.   Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.   https://sites.google.com/view/kskannan

Abhay Rathore <abhaysinghrat...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 02:30AM -0700

So far as I've seen it, there hasn't been any meaningful difference on the Sanskrit books. About every one of them is still up there. This apparently is about Western publishers and not really those from India. I consider that the removal may have affected titles from the plaintiffs alone, but the rest of it is still there.   On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at 1:38:32 PM UTC+5:30 K S Kannan wrote:

Back to top

Reflexive Constructions in Pāṇini

अगरु <abhi.v...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 01:24AM -0700 Respected scholars,   Does anyone have a pdf copy of the following article by Professor SD Joshi?   "The Reflexive Constructions in Pāṇini." In CASS Studies, No. 6 (1982). Pune, pp. 199-217.

Back to top

Book on Linguistics

"उषाराणी सङ्का" <usha....@gmail.com>: Jun 25 11:43PM -0700 Hariom. Thank you so much sir. I went through the book by Batakrishna ji. But I am looking for something from traditional point of view. I am finding some inputs from different Bharatoya-view-pointed authors/scholars. Will update if I succeed in making anything useful in this line. Thanks again   On Friday, June 21, 2024 at 11:11:37 AM UTC+5:30 Siddharth Wakankar wrote:

"उषाराणी सङ्का" <usha....@gmail.com>: Jun 25 11:47PM -0700 Thank you Ken ji. I am looking for more academic stuff. Will try to use whatever is helpful my way. Thanks again :)   On Friday, June 21, 2024 at 8:38:01 AM UTC+5:30 kenp wrote:

Back to top

Ashtadhyayi as Software

Amba Kulkarni <ambap...@gmail.com>: Jun 26 08:32AM +0200 Thank you Sai Susarla ji for clarification.   Best, Amba   >> http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/scl >> http://tdil-dc.in/san/ >> http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/faculty/amba   --   आ नो भद्रा: क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वत: ll Let noble thoughts come to us from every side. - Rig Veda, I-89-i.   Professor & Head Department of Sanskrit Studies University of Hyderabad Prof. C.R. Rao Road Hyderabad-500 046   (91) 040 23133802(off)   http://scl.samsaadhanii.in <http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/faculty/amba> http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/scl http://tdil-dc.in/san/ http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/faculty/amba

Back to top

You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to bvparishat+...@googlegroups.com.