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Pirates, Plagiarisers, Publishers
— by Prashant Iyengar — last modified May 29, 2014 05:55 AMThis 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.
Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AMWe 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.
Indian Law and "Parallel Exports"
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AMRecently, 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.
Why Parallel Importation of Books Should Be Allowed
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Feb 01, 2019 05:41 PMThere 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.
New Release of IPR Chapter of India-EU Free Trade Agreement
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:34 PMA draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available now for the first time, provides insight into India's response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual property protection and enforcement.
Problems Remain with Standing Committee's Report on Copyright Amendments
— by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 06, 2011 07:50 AMThe 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.
Statement of CIS on the Work of the Committee in the 21st SCCR
— by Nirmita Narasimhan — last modified May 29, 2014 06:57 AMThe twenty-first session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was held in Geneva from 8 to 12 November 2010. Nirmita Narasimhan attended the conference and represented the Centre for Internet and Society.
We’ve All Got Some Baggage
— by Lawrence Liang — last modified May 29, 2014 07:22 AMAmerica’s newest trade agreement is not going to kill only iPods. The article appeared in the Tehelka Magazine Vol 7, Issue 45, Dated November 13, 2010
Seminar on Software Patent and the Commons
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 23, 2011 02:22 PMA pre-grant opposition has been filed against a software patent application filed in the patent office by Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research in Motion (RIM), manufacturers of Blackberry. The opposition was filed on August 31, 2010 by the Software Freedom Law Centre which has recently expanded its operations to India. This exciting development was announced by Mishi Choudhary from SFLC on the lines of the seminar on “Software Patents and the Commons” organised on 1 September 2010 in Delhi jointly by SFLC, the Centre for Internet and Society, the Society for Knowledge Commons and Red Hat. Filing more such oppositions to software patents in India was in the pipeline and this is just the beginning of a movement to take on monopolisation of knowledge and ideas through patenting software, the organisers said.
First Post-Bilski Decision - Software Patent Rejected
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AMIn the first decision post-Bilski, the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) rejected a software patent claimed by Hewlett-Packard. The ruling in this case has buttressed the fact that the Bilski decision furthered the cause of narrowing the patentability of software even though the Supreme Court of the United States totally avoided mentioning software patents or the applicability of the machine or transformation test for software patents in its decision.
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