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Statement of CIS, India, on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty at the 22nd SCCR
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 22, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Broadcasting,
Technological Protection Measures
The twenty-second session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is being held in Geneva from June 15 to June 24, 2011. Nirmita Narasimhan and Pranesh Prakash are attending the conference. CIS delivered its statement, on the Broadcast Treaty, and made it available in print form as well.
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Blogs
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Pirates, Plagiarisers, Publishers
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by
Prashant Iyengar
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published
Mar 09, 2011
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last modified
May 29, 2014 05:55 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
This article attempts to rescue not by denying the charges of plagiarism, but by charting an alternative trajectory of plagiarism so that each successive instance does not amplify our sense of embarrassment and crisis in the academy. The article by Prashant Iyengar was published in the Economic & Political Weekly, February 26, 2011, Vol XLVI No 9.
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Copy, Left And Right
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 19, 2011
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last modified
May 23, 2012 06:37 AM
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Copyright
Copyright laws are becoming more rigid and anti-sharing. But copyleft has a solution.
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News & Media
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Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Feb 10, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
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filed under:
Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
We engaged in an e-mail conversation with Thomas Abraham, the managing director of Hachette India, on the issue of parallel importation of books into India. We thought it would be in the public interest to publish a substantive part of that conversation. In this post he points at great length how our arguments are faulty. While we still believe that he doesn't succeed, we hope this will clarify matters a bit.
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Indian Law and "Parallel Exports"
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Feb 01, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
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Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Recently, a lawyer for the publishing industry made the claim that allowing for parallel importation would legally allow for the exports of low-priced edition. Here we present a legal rebuttal of that claim.
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Why Parallel Importation of Books Should Be Allowed
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jan 25, 2011
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last modified
Feb 01, 2019 05:41 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
There has been much controversy lately with some publishers trying to stop the government from amending s.2(m) of the Indian Copyright Act, clarifying that a parallel import will not be seen as an "infringing copy". This blog post argues that the government should, keeping in mind the larger picture, still go ahead and legalise parallel imports.
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Problems Remain with Standing Committee's Report on Copyright Amendments
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 16, 2010
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last modified
Sep 06, 2011 07:50 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Technological Protection Measures
The Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (under which ministry copyright falls) recently tabled their report on the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 before Parliament. There is much to be applauded in the report, including the progressive stand that the Committee has taken on the issue of providing access by persons with disabilities. This post, however, will concern itself with highlighting some of the problems with that report, along with some very important considerations that got missed out of the entire amendment debate.
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Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 28, 2010
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last modified
Aug 06, 2013 01:37 PM
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Copyright
India's Copyright Act was established in 1957, and is in the process of being placed before the Parliament in 2010. The provisions in the proposed Bill will work to make the Act WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) compliant. When looking at privacy in the context of copyright four key questions arise, says Elonnai Hickock as she analyses privacy in the context of the Indian Copyright Act.
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Privacy
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Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act, 1857 as Amended in 2010
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:25 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
In this post the author examines the issue of privacy in light of the Indian Copyright Act, 1857 as amended by the Copyright Amendment Bill in 2010. Four key questions are examined in detail and the author gives suitable recommendations for each of the questions that arise.
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Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 18, 2010
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last modified
Sep 21, 2011 06:01 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Fair Dealings,
Public Accountability,
Intellectual Property Rights,
RTI,
Featured,
Broadcasting,
Publications,
Submissions,
Technological Protection Measures
CIS analyses the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, from a public interest perspective to sift the good from the bad, and importantly to point out what crucial amendments should be considered but have not been so far.
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