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Blog Entry Enforcement of Anti-piracy Laws by the Indian Entertainment Industry
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM — filed under: , ,
This brief note by Siddharth Chadha seeks to map out the key actors in enforcement of copyright laws. These bodies not only investigate cases of infringement and piracy relating to the entertainment industry, but tie up with the police and IP law firms to pursue actions against the offenders through raids (many of them illegal) and court cases. Siddharth notes that the discourse on informal networks and circuits of distribution of cultural goods remains hijacked with efforts to contain piracy as the only rhetoric which safeguards the business interests of big, mostly multinational, media corporations.
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM — filed under: ,
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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Blog Entry Impaired Social Mobility
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: ,
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
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Right to Read Campaign - Delhi
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 18, 2010 — last modified Aug 31, 2011 10:43 AM — filed under: ,
The Centre for Internet and Society is organizing a Right to Read Campaign on January 30th 2010, at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
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IGF 2009 - Main Session: Emerging Issues: Social Networks
by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 18, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:46 PM — filed under:
Current laws don't seem to scale well to handle Web 2.0 issues
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Blog Entry Right to Knowledge for Persons with Print Impairment: A Proposal to Amend the Indian Copyright Regime
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 04, 2009 — last modified Apr 26, 2013 06:09 AM — filed under:
This research paper argues the need for amending Indian Copyright provisions for enabling the print impaired to gain access to published works. The paper was submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development in November to appraise it of the needs of the print disabled community. It is up for public comments and we welcome your feedback for this ongoing campaign.
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A Report on National Conference on ICTs for Differently Abled / Under privileged Communities in Education, Employment & Entreprenuership 2009
by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 04, 2009 — last modified Aug 26, 2011 07:41 AM — filed under:
This is a report about the National Conference on ICTs for the differently abled / under privileged communities in education, employment and entreprenuership which was held at Loyola College in Chennai from 1 to 3 December 2009.
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