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CIS Submission to the Expert Committee: Protection of Broadcasting Organisations under the Proposed Treaty as Compared to Other International Conventions
— by Amulya Purushothama and Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Sep 03, 2015 02:05 AMThis is a submission made by Nehaa Chaudhari on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society to the Expert Committee on the Broadcast Treaty constituted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. This submission compares provisions of the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations that is being deliberated at WIPO's SCCR at the moment, and provisions for the protection of rights of broadcasters that are already present in existing international instruments.
29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: Statement on the Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching, Research Institutions and Persons with Disabilities
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 20, 2014 01:40 PMAt the 29th session of WIPO's SCCR, the Chair, Martin Moscoso, requested NGOs to send in their statements on limitations and exceptions for education, teaching, research institutions and persons with disabilities in writing, to be placed on the record. Nehaa Chaudhari, on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) sent in this written statement.
Several Publications Now Available under Creative Commons License
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 28, 2014 03:05 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society has got the following publications under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license. These are from multiple authors.
29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: CIS Intervention : Questions to Prof. Kenneth Crews on his Updated Study on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 14, 2014 02:56 AMNehaa Chaudhari on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on December 11 during one of the sessions in WIPO asked two questions to Prof. Kenneth Crews.
CIS Submission to the Expert Committee: Comment on the Broadening of Definitions in the Proposed Broadcast Treaty Compared to Other International Conventions
— by Amulya Purushothama and Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Sep 03, 2015 02:08 AMThis is a submission made by Nehaa Chaudhari on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society to the Expert Committee on the Broadcast Treaty constituted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. This submission compares the definitions of various terms in the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations that is being deliberated at WIPO's SCCR at the moment, and definitions for these terms that are already present in existing international instruments.
29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: CIS- 2nd (brief) Intervention on the Broadcast Treaty
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 12, 2014 11:56 AMOn Day 3 (December 10, 2014), the SCCR briefly re-convened at the Plenary. The Chair, Martin Moscoso updated the Committee on the discussions and the developments that had taken place over the course of the past two days in the Informals. The Centre for Internet and Society made a brief pointed intervention on one of the documents being discussed in the Informals.
Beyond the Language Tussle
— by Tejaswini Niranjana — last modified Dec 10, 2014 02:08 PMIt might be more productive to see the ongoing Sanskrit versus German controversy as a welcome opportunity to discuss the real and persistent problems of our education system, not all of which have to do with which languages children get to learn.
29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: CIS Intervention on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
— by Nehaa Chaudhari — last modified Dec 12, 2014 11:55 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) made its intervention on the proposed treaty in the ongoing WIPO session on December 9, 2014.
Nineteen Books Published by Ama Odisha Relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 07, 2014 03:35 AMOdisha's most circulated newspaper Sambad has collaborated with CIS-A2K to relicense 19 books published by its sister concern "Ama Odisha".
Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra's 21 books relicensed under CC-by-SA 4.0
— by Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Dec 06, 2014 02:49 AMTwenty one books of renowned Odia author Nirmala Kumari Mohapatra will now be available under the Creative Commons License.
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