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004: A License to Share

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Mar 17, 2014 09:00 PM |

In this blogpost Devika Agarwal, a 4th year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, takes a first look at the Creative Commons 4.0 Licence.

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NGO Profile: Third World Network

Posted by Puneeth Nagaraj at Mar 14, 2014 01:32 PM |
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In the second blog in this series, I profile the work of the IP team of Third World Network (TWN) at the various International Organisations in Geneva.

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Report on the 9th Session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement

Posted by Puneeth Nagaraj at Mar 14, 2014 09:45 AM |
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The 9th Session of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement ended here in Geneva last week. In this report, I look at the major issues discussed at the Session and the deadlock over future work of the Committee.

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NGO Profile: Knowledge Ecology International

Posted by Puneeth Nagaraj at Mar 11, 2014 04:10 PM |
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As CIS’ observer in Geneva, I will be profiling NGOs and other prominent actors at the WIPO. In the first in a series of blogs, I profile the work of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) at the various International Organisations in Geneva.

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Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 3)

Posted by Ananth Padmanabhan at Feb 14, 2014 05:13 AM |

In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block dozens, if not hundreds, of websites. In this, the third and concluding part, he looks at the Indian law in the Copyright Act and the Information Technology Act, and concludes that both those laws restrain courts and private companies from ordering an ISP to block a website for copyright infringement.

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Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 2)

Posted by Ananth Padmanabhan at Feb 05, 2014 05:10 PM |

In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block dozens, if not hundreds, of websites. In this, the second part, he looks at the law laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court on secondary and contributory copyright infringement, and finds that those wouldn't allow Indian courts to grant "John Doe" orders against ISPs.

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The Game of IPR: Insights from the 6th Global Intellectual Property Convention in Hyderabad

Posted by Samantha Cassar at Jan 31, 2014 09:30 AM |

IP practitioners and IP creators were among the 1700 participants to gather at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre earlier this month. Here, CIS had the opportunity of listening in on perspectives around the “Optimization of economic value of innovation & IPR in the global market” while attending numerous talks and sessions that were held over the course of the convention’s three days.

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Open Letter to the Vatican: Request for Holy See to Comment on IPR

Due to the Holy See’s demonstrated pro-access position to medicines and published materials for persons with disabilities, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) requested for His Excellency, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, to also consider copyrights, patents or IPR more generally, as the Holy See’s Permanent Observer at WIPO. We strongly encourage other organizations and civil society groups to modify this letter, as needed, and to contact the Holy See Mission to the United Nations (and WIPO) in Geneva in order to help us prompt His Excellency to contribute to the international dialogue on IPR.

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Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 1)

Posted by Ananth Padmanabhan at Jan 30, 2014 11:00 AM |

In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block dozens, if not hundreds, of websites. In this part, he looks at the theory behind John Doe orders and finds that it would be wrong for Indian courts to grant "John Doe" orders against ISPs.

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CIS Statement on Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching and Research Institutions and Persons with Other Disabilities

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Dec 20, 2013 09:10 PM |
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Nehaa Chaudhari on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) made this statement at the WIPO-SCCR on December 20, 2013.

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CIS Statement on the proposed treaty for Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Dec 19, 2013 01:00 PM |

Nehaa Chaudhari on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) made the statement at the WIPO-SCCR on December 18, 2013.

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WIPO Broadcast Treaty- SCCR 26 : Proposals Introduced

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Dec 17, 2013 10:00 PM |
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India and the United States introduced proposals for discussion at the ongoing session of the SCCR.

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CIS Comments to the Ministry of Human Resource Development on the Proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Dec 07, 2013 04:45 AM |
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As a follow up to a stakeholder meeting called by the MHRD on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, CIS provided written comments on the Working Document for a Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations adopted by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at its twenty-fourth session, Geneva, July 16 to 25, 2012.

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History of Creative Commons in India

Posted by Priyank Dwivedi at Nov 13, 2013 04:20 AM |
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This blog-post discusses the potential for Creative Commons in India, in light of imminent Creative Commons Re-launch, by highlighting the history of works licensed under Creative Commons in the country.

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The Fight for Digital Sovereignty

Posted by Sunil Abraham at Oct 25, 2013 07:30 AM |

It is time to incorporate free software principles to address the issue of privacy. Thanks to the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the United States (US) National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked secrets about the agency’s surveillance programmes, a 24-year-old movement aimed at protecting the rights of software users and developers has got some fresh attention from policymakers.

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Ambiguity in the App Store: Understanding India’s emerging IT sector in light of IP

Posted by Samantha Cassar at Oct 24, 2013 01:00 PM |

Mobile applications hold immense potential for India but are not fully understood by even their own developers in the context of India’s intellectual property (IP) regime. This is the first in a series of blog posts introducing CIS's new access to knowledge research initiative that seeks to understand how stakeholders encounter India’s IP law and what this means for the mobile app ecosystem, and in turn, the Indian mobile user. This research also aims to address problematic policy areas for innovation and protection for developers, as well as to comment on India’s regime with respect to the emerging mobile app sector.

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Mobile Phone Patents: Prior Art Survey

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Oct 23, 2013 04:40 AM |
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In this blog post, Nehaa Chaudhari discusses a study on a portion of the patent landscape around mobile phone patents, commissioned by CIS earlier this year. This prior art search was undertaken by Rohan George of Samvad Partners, who worked as a Consultant with CIS.

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Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?

Konkani Wikipedia — Climbing up the Indian Language Ladder?

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Aug 31, 2013 12:00 PM |

Konkani as a language has seen geographical, political and religious conflicts. Being the official language of Goa and spoken widely in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra it is still trying to strengthen its base. Recently CIS-A2K in collaboration with Goa University organized a four-day workshop for MA, Konkani language students. This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia which is incubation. We’re hoping that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this 7 year old project out of incubation to a live Wikipedia project.

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India's Obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties (Part A): “Bilateral Inhibiting Treaty?” — Investigating the Challenges that Bilateral Investment Treaties pose to the Compulsory Licensing of Pervasive Technology Patent Pools

Posted by Gavin Pereira at Aug 31, 2013 12:00 PM |

In this blog post, the first of a series of three, Gavin Pereira attempts to address the challenges that India's obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties may pose to the establishment of a patent pool in the country. The author thanks Puneeth Nagaraj for his guidance and inputs on this paper.

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Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Aug 21, 2013 09:05 PM |

Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.

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