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gayan kalhara said:
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Machan I am not an expertise on the Intellectual Property laws related to the software especially about general public license as it is a separate new branch of law. My Fields are criminal, Human Rights, family matters, Administrative matters of the government, Land matters, Environmental matters,
But I will show you some directions
You can go before commercial high court (Colombo High court is the only commercial high court in Sri Lanka) which has intellectual property jurisdiction under high court of the provinces (special provisions) act no 10 of 1996 act and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Act No. 36 of 2003 against the digital magazines and Blogs.
But these cases related internet and computer totally new to the legal system of sri lanka and there are no expertise lawyers for this field {there are few but their charges are very high)
But machan as I said you can go before the high courts claiming that your intellectual property rights have violated but burden of proof vested with you. So you have to prove that your IP rights violated. It’s very complicated. I think you know this better than me as I am not aware with technical proceedings regarding your particular case.
Machan oyata puluwan nam oyage creations or articles or softwares thamange mag wlai blog wlai dagena salli hamba karanne ahawal person or institution kiyala then it will be ok.
For example api hithamu elakiri eken oyage dewal publish karanwa kiyala. But to whom against your case going to file. Oya wage practicle difiiculties thiyenawa. Machan still in sri lanka laws are not developed regarding these matters.
and yes machan digital media evidance widihata warthamanaye courts accept karanawa.but sometimes computer evidence isn't consider as under Evidence Ordinance. eka macha case awasthanugath karunu anuwai theeranaya karanne
If you want more information contact national intellectual property office sri lanka. They are the expertises regarding your case.
Here is the contact details
3rd Floor, "Samagam Medura"
400, D.R.Wijewardena Mawatha
Colombo 10.
Tel : +94 (011) 2689368
Fax: +94 (011) 2689367
Email - [email protected]
Web -www. nipo.gov.lk
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kosandpol said:
Honestly I agree with you yes I don't know much about IP laws related to software as I am not specialized that branch which totally new to the legal system of sri lanka
kosandpol said:
but here machan I am still in the same positin machan
yes computer crime act passed in 2007 but the minister took nearly 1 year to take it in to operation. but 90% of the act can not practically enforciable,there is no implementation of the Act up to date due to various shortcomings of the Administration of the country such as public unawareness of the existence of the Act, shortage of experts, trained Police officers to investigate offences under the Act, non-availability of computer forensic laboratories.. I think you know better than me about this difficulties as you read the whole act. 09 th january 2009 Chief Justice Mr. sarath N Silva took the same conclusion writing article to LBO(lanka business online)
Therefore my friend there is no need read my law books agian I think.but defenitly I will buy new law books to learn about GPLs and intellectual property rights related to software
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nice thread. 
a few questions here.
Is there any law against software piracy in Sri Lanka? We can't make a copy of an Audio CD legally and many CD shop owners are afraid of it. But they copy & sell more than 100s of CD copies of commerical software appliction a day. Can someone take a legal action against them or us who use pirated softwares? How will be upcoming laws on this? Will we have stop using pirated copies of them?
a few questions here.Is there any law against software piracy in Sri Lanka? We can't make a copy of an Audio CD legally and many CD shop owners are afraid of it. But they copy & sell more than 100s of CD copies of commerical software appliction a day. Can someone take a legal action against them or us who use pirated softwares? How will be upcoming laws on this? Will we have stop using pirated copies of them?
short answer : YES.ChuttaFX said:nice thread.
Is there any law against software piracy in Sri Lanka? We can't make a copy of an Audio CD legally and many CD shop owners are afraid of it. But they copy & sell more than 100s of CD copies of commerical software appliction a day. Can someone take a legal action against them or us who use pirated softwares? How will be upcoming laws on this? Will we have stop using pirated copies of them?
There are laws against copy right infringement and IP laws and the 2007 computer crimes act covers software piracy as well. Unity and some other CD shops got raided for pirate software CDs as well as some other places.
kosandpol said:
I agree with you on your short answer yes.
but my friend some cd shops in colombo got raided under only IP laws("intellectual property act") not under computer crime act.why computer crime act doesn't cover software piracy.CCA covers crimes such as hacking,acts which endanger national security related to computers,using illegal devices and etc.but not software piracy
As I mentioned earlier CCA still noting to do with computers(future we hope that government will take appropriate actions to enforce it) as there is no implementation of the Act up to date due to various shortcomings of the Administration of the country such as public unawareness of the existence of the Act, shortage of experts, trained Police officers to investigate offences under the Act, non-availability of computer forensic laboratories.
kmdp said:ape rata marune katawath computer prashna ara wena mukuth na wage??????????
aa thava ekak thiyenava. oya vage paankadayo Fake ID valin ena ekath prashnayak
kmdp said:
gayan kalhara said:aa thava ekak thiyenava. oya vage paankadayo Fake ID valin ena ekath prashnayak
what i said was wrong. Extremely sorry ayya.
WELCOME TO EK
I like to learn law, and i wish to sit for law entrance.
campus yana gaman law college yanna puluwanda.
campus yana gaman law college yanna puluwanda.
Ah.. My field !
Anyways.. I never give legal advices for free !
Then again, I will always advice as a human on the paths and ways you can be protected by law... and the way to break it as well !
So, in short.
Never ask me a law question if you are not ready to take a blunt and a short answer which is no where near any legal standard !
Anyways.. I never give legal advices for free !
Then again, I will always advice as a human on the paths and ways you can be protected by law... and the way to break it as well !
So, in short.
Never ask me a law question if you are not ready to take a blunt and a short answer which is no where near any legal standard !
Nash_Node said:
what is the different between Law Entrance , Open University LLB, and UOC Law faculty.i cant understand it.machan what is the easy way OUSL LLB or Law entrance.
machan both law faculty of university of colombo and OUSL give the LL.B degree. LL.B degree isn't a professional qualification to practice as a lawyer.its a degree. both UOC and OUSL ll.b students must do the Law college final exam after completing their degree. law college is the institute who gives the attorney-at-law. without attorney-at-law qualification no one can practice as lawyer or legal officer even he or she has a LL.B degree.USB said:
both ll.b and law enterance exam are not easy as they are very competitive.but LL.B enterence eaasy than the Law college enterence.coz LL.B enternce less competitive than law college enterence.(mokada machan law college ekata wada 100 k withara wadipura studentsla enternce eken pass karana nisa)
e nisa machan if u have a dream to be a lawyer try both OUSL LL.B enterence and Law college enternce
