Copyright issue
4 years ago
Sir , Mam, I want to develop one app and I don't have my own content . This is my first app . And the website available on internet have copyrighted content . So I just want to know that can I copy the content of copyrighted website by mixing the content of many websites , shuffling the content , changing the sentence and words with same meaning . Reducing some sentences . Changing chronological order of words and sentence , Sir please I need your help . Thankyou in anticipation , yours sincerely
Please consult any advocate practicing in the above field.
Shreyash Mohta
Responded 4 years ago
You can copyright anything if the end product is something unique in nature.
Having that said, lets clarify one thing.
A book written by Shakespeare would have its own copyright.
A book written by someone else having small parts of the same story story written by Shakespeare would also have its own copyright as the book in itself is unique.
As I can well deduce from your question your intention is to make something unique but by altering and modifying and mixing contents of other various websites.
In my opinion such a thing can be a subject to copyright.
However, a legal opinion from a lawyer who specifically deals in such matters is advisable.
Also, what you want to do is defined as "Adaptation" in the law of copyright
Adaptation involves the preparation of a new work in the same or different form based upon an already existing work. The Copyright Act defines the following acts as adaptations:
Conversion of a dramatic work into a non dramatic work
Conversion of a literary or artistic work into a dramatic work
Re-arrangement of a literary or dramatic work
Depiction in a comic form or through pictures of a literary or dramatic work
Transcription of a musical work or any act involving re-arrangement or alteration of an existing work.
The making of a cinematographic film of a literary or dramatic or musical work is also an adaptation.
However, a proper legal opinion on the same is very much advisable.
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Malabika
Responded 4 years ago
Ashish K Dongre
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Rameshwar Dadhe
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Sanjay Kumar Jha
Responded 4 years ago
There are restrictions under the copyright act, while making copyright contents free of legal issues for your website, what you say by mixing all contents may not service this purposes.
You may contact for such contents for you App, or web sites.
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Anonymous
Replied 4 years ago
But sir I am going to spin and shuffle the content and I am going to remove some of the sentence and also going to change some words and adding some of the my own content
Anonymous
Replied 4 years ago
Then sir can I copy one sentence from every website by shuffling and spinning it . Changing words and sentence with Same meaning .
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