
Pavanaja, who is also a popular contributor of Kannada information on Wikipedia, feels the 'free and open' knowledge movement in Kannada and especially Wikipedia is hampered by lack of contributors. The rest of the books for which CC licence is provided will have to be typed again and uploaded to Wikisource.” They have given us soft copies of some of the books. Any information that is out of copyright is uploaded to. Choose from millions of best selling ebooks, comics. “What the department has given is rights to re-published versions of the classics and also the commentary, criticism, essays on these classics they have published. Google Play Books is the one app you need to buy and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga.

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But when someone publishes even a classic, they hold the copyright to the information they have keyed in and edited,” said Pavanaja who is also a member of the advisory committee to the state government of Kannada software development. So technically, classics are out of copyright but this applies to the text only. “According to India's copyright laws, any book will be out of copyright after 60 years. Soon, all these will be available for anyone who wants to read them online. The books released by the department include 35 volumes of the Samagra Dasa Sahitya (complete Dasa literature), 15 volumes of Samagra Vachana Samputa (complete Vachana literature), 36 volumes of Rigveda Samhita, Kumaravyasa Bharata, Jaimini Bharata, Nalacharitre and Mohana Tarangini. With this licence, the source copy (soft copy) of the books will be made available.

The department then decided to give CC licence to 105 books last month. Pavanaja, along with some other Wikipedia contributors, approached the department to digitise and re-release Kannada classics.

The initiative, which aims to enrich Kannada language and culture, is the brainchild of UB Pavanaja, a Bangalore-based writer. MyLang Books is the first of its kind mobile app to host a wonderful collection of Kannada ebooks, audiobooks and now print books too Explore a wide range of novels, short stories, stories, essays and non-fiction books from famous Kannada writers such as Kuvempu, Karanth, Tejaswi, U R Ananthamurthy, Jogi, Vasudhendra, Girimane Shymarao, Vivek Shanbhag, Vaidehi, D R Nagaraj, Yogaraj Bhat.
