Publication of a journal
Mohinder Singh
(Querist) 18 April 2012
This query is : Resolved
sir,
i started publication of a journal after getting the names verified by the Registrar Newspapers for India, new Delhi on 3 June 2011. The name of the journal was verified out of 10 names submitted by us to the RNI. This process is mandatory under the Press and Registration of Books Act 1867.
after publishing regularly by almost a year, i applied for ISSN No. The ISSN authorities told me that the title verified in our name has already been registered by some else in 2009.
On our query the ISSN authorities told us that they need no RNI verfication / registration for granting the registration number. Thus are the authorities of ISSN (an international organization based at Paris) not doing an illegal act and they say they are governed by the provisions of the rules, prepared by their headoffice.
Secondly the organization of India publishing the journal with our title name, should not be sued for damages as they are harming our business?
please respond to the query.
regards
Mohinder singh kamboj
9354920313.
mskamboj@thekimt.com
ajay sethi
(Expert) 18 April 2012
if title verified in your name has been registered with some one else in 2009 you ought to raise the issue with RNI as to on what basis name of journal was registered and you were permitted to publish it in india
you ought to have verified procedure for ISSN no with the authorites .
contact a local lawyer . how is it that RNI is not aware of name registration in 2009?
filing suit for damages is lonfg drawn process and it takes 20 years atleast in mumbai for final decree
Sankaranarayanan
(Expert) 18 April 2012
What language you use for those magazine. Why they were not refused for registeration. First write and seek the reason. Then with local lawyer you procced it
Guest
(Expert) 18 April 2012
You have not provided information whether after verification of names, whether you got your journal registered with the RNI or you started publishing the same without getting due registration with the RNI.
Of course, there is a difference in the verification of name of the journal and getting that registered with the RNI.
However, you can see the following statutory and non-statutory functions, which the RNI is responsible to discharge and can check if in any way, the RNI is concerned with the ISSN registration for the purpose of reply to your query:
STATUTORY FUNCTIONS
- Compilation and maintenance of a Register of Newspapers containing particulars about all the newspapers published;
- Issue of Certificate of Registration to newspapers published under valid declaration;
- Scrutiny and analysis of annual statements sent by the publishers of newspapers every year under PRB Act containing information on circulation, ownership etc;
- Informing district magistrates about availability of titles, to intending publishers for filing declaration;
- Ensuring that newspapers are published in accordance with the provisions of PRB Act 1867 and the rules made thereunder;
- Verification under Section 19-F of PRB Act, of circulation claims furnished by the publishers in their Annual Statements; and
- Preparation and submission to the Government on or before December 31 each year, a report containing all available information and statistics about the press in India with particular reference to the emerging trends in circulation and in the direction of common ownership units etc.
NON-STATUTORY FUNCTIONS
- The following fall under the non-statutory functions:
- Formulation of Newsprint Allocation Policy Guidelines and issue of Eligibility Certificate to the newspapers to enable them to import newsprint and to procure indigenous newsprint;
- Assessing and certifying the essential need and requirement of newspaper establishments to import printing and composing machinery and allied materials.
Shonee Kapoor
(Expert) 18 April 2012
The reasoning of Ld.Dhingra Ji is correct.
Regards,
Shonee Kapoor
harassed.by.498a@gmail.com
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 18 April 2012
Nothing seems to be added after reading the detailed reply of Dhingra ji.
Mohinder Singh
(Querist) 26 April 2012
Dhingraji
Namaskar
May i submit few lines for your consideration that to start publication of a journal one need to submit a dacalaration before a DM also submit 10 names for the journal / newspaper.
Then one of the titles is verified in your name by the RNI and you are asked to start publication within a statutory period - for a bi-monlthly journal it is 3 month.
As soon as the first copy of the publication is available, you are supposed to get the title registered with the RNI, again within a specified period - here it is 2 years from the date of verification.
so first step is the verification then publication and then registration.
our journal is in the porocess of registration and we have already grought out 5 issues of the journal.
As for as the ISSN number is concerned it is not mandatory for any publisher, as i think, as it is governed by rules of ISSN authorities based at Paris (France).
Guest
(Expert) 26 April 2012
Dear Mohinder Singh,
Of course, your presumption is correct. ISSN is not mandatory. You are bound to abide by the country rules on newspapers and publications.
Mohinder Singh
(Querist) 26 April 2012
Right Dhingra ji.
Thank you very much for making the legal aspect on the matter so clear.
regards
M S kamboj
Guest
(Expert) 26 April 2012
You are welcome, Mr. Mohinder Singh.
