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Blog Entry Interviews with App Developers: [dis]regard towards IPR vs. Patent Hype – Part II
by Samantha Cassar — published Aug 14, 2014 — last modified Aug 19, 2014 03:51 AM — filed under: , , , ,
The following is a second post within a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Within this research, CIS attempts to understand how they engage with the law within their practice, particularly with respect to IP. Here we examine how these developers responded to a question on legal protection for their works.
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Blog Entry 28th Session of the WIPO SCCR: Report on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Jul 29, 2014 — last modified Aug 07, 2014 10:44 AM — filed under: ,
The 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“the Committee” / "SCCR") took place in Geneva from June 30, 2014 to July 04, 2014. In this article, Nehaa Chaudhari, who attended this meeting on behalf of CIS, discusses the developments that took place with reference to the proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (“Broadcast Treaty”).
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Blog Entry Preventive Detention for Copyright Violation: Karnataka Amends the 'Goondas' Act
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Aug 13, 2014 — filed under: ,
Last week, the Government of Karnataka amended the Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Gamblers Act, 1985 (“the Karnataka Goondas Act”). The Karnataka Goondas Act would now also apply to offences under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000. This article presents an overview on the various provisions of this law and discusses the potential impact of the amendment.
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Blog Entry Karnataka Goondas Act - A note on Legislative Competence
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Aug 28, 2014 — last modified Sep 06, 2014 04:47 AM — filed under:
A couple of weeks ago, we had an insightful guest post by Nehaa Chaudhari on amendments to Karnataka's Goondas Act, a draconian legislation which seeks to allow preventive detention for some types of copyright violations. Today, we have a follow up post on that, that argues that the recent amendments are unconstitutional.
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Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS Hyderabad
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 25, 2012 — last modified Oct 25, 2012 08:42 AM — filed under: , , , ,
CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus are organizing a hackathon for their tech fest — ATMOS on October 26 - 27, 2012, from 6.00 p.m. on October 26 to 6.00 a.m. on October 27.
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India and France to Digitise Manuscripts, Artworks & Archives
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 02, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:15 AM — filed under: , , ,
The Indian and French governments have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will assist in technical knowledge sharing, competency, skill building and cultural exchange between the two countries, as per a PIB release.
Located in Openness / News & Media
Odia Wikisource to Celebrate its First Anniversary Tomorrow!
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:14 AM — filed under: , ,
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia language library, will celebrate its first anniversary in Odisha capital tomorrow.
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Odia Language Classics could Now be Read from Phones, Tablets and of course from Computers!
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 04, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:12 AM — filed under: , , ,
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow. Available online at or.wikisource.org, the project finally went live in last year on October 20 after being incubated over two years. In a nutshell, it not just provides free and open access to readers to access text that are out of copyright or available under free license, but also allows them to contribute in either digitizing copyright-free text or correcting mistakes made by others.
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Blog Entry Odia Wikisource to Celebrate Its First Anniversary in Bhubaneswar
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Oct 25, 2015 — last modified Dec 15, 2015 08:19 AM — filed under: , ,
Odia Wikisource, a sister project of Odia Wikipedia and a free online Odia-language library is celebrating its first anniversary in Bhubaneswar tomorrow i.e., 25th October, 2015.
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कोंकणी विश्‍वकोश ‘विकिपीडिया’वर
by Prasad Krishna — published Oct 23, 2013 — filed under: , , , ,
News about digitalization of Konkani Vishwakosh, appeared in Navprabha daily on October 22, 2013 on front page.
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