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AH&LA serves notice to Mumbai University and Anjuman Islam

Bhavika Jhaveri - Mumbai

Mumbai University and its affiliate Anjuman-I-Islam's College Of Hotel & Tourism Management Studies & Research have been accused of violating the copyright law by the Educational Institute of American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH & LA).

Anjuman-I-Islam informed that a notice was served to them for reproducing the study material for the degree programme of the Mumbai University from AH&LA's textbooks and distributed the same among five colleges in Mumbai. Confirming the same, a source from the AH&LA, says, "Our head office got a copy of the CD compiled by Anjuman Islam for the Mumbai University, and it was verbatim of our three textbooks, which is a clear case of infringement of copyright and unauthorised use of material." The source further informed that in response to the notification, B P Sahni, principal of Anjuman-I-Islam and the chairman of ad-hoc board of studies, University of Mumbai, admitted to have copied from AH&LA's material. "Sahni admitted of copying the matter, in his letter, but claimed to have done it with good intentions and in the benefit of the students. We are not here to fight a battle, but there is something called as academic honesty. They were willing to destroy and withdraw the CDs, but the head office is still in the discussion stage to decide further course of action," the source concludes.