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CIS Statement on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty at SCCR 19
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Pranesh Prakash
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Feb 01, 2010
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last modified
Feb 01, 2012 09:07 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Broadcasting,
WIPO
This statement on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty was delivered on December 17, 2010 at the 19th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights by Nirmita Narasimhan on behalf of CIS.
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Oppose Software Patents
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 15, 2010
Oppose Software Patents
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Oppose Software Patents
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 15, 2010
Oppose software patents
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Opening India's Spectrum
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 13, 2010
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last modified
Jan 19, 2012 11:07 AM
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Telecom
India's Government monopolised the radio spectrum until the mid-1990s and even now, non-governmental use of wireless is more limited than in other democracies. Restrictive policies constrain the growth of mobile telephony, broadcasting, wireless broadband and many other services important to India's social and economic development. Can anything be done to change this? Robert Horvitz, director of Open Spectrum Foundation suggests changes.
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Free and Open Source Software
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 11, 2010
Free and open source software (FOSS) is a good thing from both the perspective of programmer and user freedoms as well as from the perspective of better and more efficient software production. Also, FOSS forms the backbone of the Internet (BIND/NSD for DNS servers, Apache for web servers, sendmail/postfix/qmail for mail servers, Asterisk for VoIP servers, etc.), and the Internet as we know it would not exist without FOSS.
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Open Standards
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 11, 2010
The Centre for Internet and Society promotes Open Standards, i.e., standards that are technically and legally free to study, free to use, developed and managed in an open manner, with a complete implementation available to all. Open standards help all -- government and citizens, industry and consumers -- by allowing greater interoperability and choice (since they are necessary for free and open source software), greater competition, reduction in costs, and greater long-term reliability.
As part of our work on Open Standards, we have been providing the comments to the Indian government's Draft National Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance, and have been working as a member of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards at the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum.
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Software Patents
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 11, 2010
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Jan 11, 2010 09:53 AM
Software patents are a potent threat to both open standards as well as FOSS. While in India, pure software patents (i.e., a patent over a "computer programme per se") are not allowed, still software patents are to be reckoned with. The draft patent manual prepared by the Patent Office in 2008 seemingly goes against section 3(k) of the Patents Act, and allows partially for software patents. Further, the Patent Office often incorrectly grants software patents, even though the same is prohibited by the law. We have started a wiki-based project to collect all such examples of incorrectly granted software patents.
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Time Out Bengaluru - Software Patenting
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 11, 2010
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last modified
Jan 16, 2013 06:39 AM
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Openness,
Software Patents,
Access to Knowledge
An article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.
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World Day Against Software Patents
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 10, 2010
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Jan 16, 2013 07:15 AM
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Software Patents,
Access to Knowledge
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
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CI IP Watch List 2009 - India Report
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Pranesh Prakash
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last modified
Dec 09, 2009 10:09 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
The India Report of the Consumers International IP Watch List 2009, detailing ways in which Indian copyright laws are beneficial and harmful for creators and consumers.
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