Talk:A Tryst With Destiny

Copyright issue

According to Indian copyright laws, the whole speech is not protected by any copyright. Some have thought otherwise because they attribute the speech to Nehru, who died on 1964 and so protected for 70 years from the death of the author. But the speech is not a personal work of Nehru. It is a part of resolution passed by the interim Prime Minister of India on 14th August 1947 in the Constituent Assembly of India in the capacity of being a member in that assembly. The whole proceedings of that assembly, with the speech as an integral part, was published on 1950 by Lok saba, a body of Indian Government. By Indian copyright act of 1956 (chapter V section 25), any work by Government after 60 years of publication is in public domain. So, the speech is in public domain CXPathi (talk) 17:08, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

The early time frame does not mean it is in the public domain in the US. If it was still copyrighted in India on the URAA date (1996-01-01) then the US copyright expires 95 years after publication (unless it is determined to be non-copyrightable in the US as a government edict or it was also published in the US and then not renewed). If you have a link to the resolution published in something official then it may be able to host under {{PD-EdictGov}}. MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:27, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Here is a 2014 reprint of the sessions with 2014 claimed copyright (e.g. on the preface). Ideally, we would find a 1950 / 1966 reprint or modify it to remove the 2014 additions and then upload to commons and proofread from that... MarkLSteadman (talk) 01:05, 19 August 2021 (UTC)