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CIS Statement (on Orphan Works, Retracted and Withdrawn Works, and Works out of Commerce) at 27th SCCR on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at May 01, 2014 02:00 PM |
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The 27th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is being held in Geneva from April 28, 2014 to May 2, 2014. Nehaa Chaudhari, on behalf of CIS made the following statement on May 1, 2014.

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Transcripts of Discussions at WIPO SCCR 27

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Apr 30, 2014 02:30 PM |

We are providing archival copies of the transcripts of the 27th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, which is being held in Geneva from April 28, 2014 to May 2, 2014.

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Reaping the Benefits of Gamification

Reaping the Benefits of Gamification

Posted by Dipali Sheth at Apr 30, 2014 12:50 PM |

As a part of the Making Change blog-post series, in this post we will identify a new technique: gamification. This technique is being used for sustainable environment conservation by modern day change-makers. We interview two out of three co-founders of Reap benefit- Kamal Raj and Gautam Prakash who believe in the adoption of more sustained environmental practices that induce social change towards conserving the environment.

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Polling Pains

Posted by Amba Salelkar at Apr 30, 2014 09:00 AM |
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While there has been a lot of outrage and furore over the dropping of names of eligible and previously registered persons from voter's lists across the Country, what hasn't received a lot of coverage is the large scale apathy towards the needs of voters with disabilities across the Country.

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From Taboo to Beautiful - Menstrupedia

From Taboo to Beautiful - Menstrupedia

Posted by Denisse Albornoz at Apr 30, 2014 05:55 AM |

On this post, we take a look at 'menstrual activism' -a movement that despite its trajectory in feminism, remains unnoticed in most accounts of traditional and digital activism. We interview Tuhin Paul, the artist and storyteller behind Menstrupedia, an India-based social venture creating comics to shatter the myths and misunderstandings surrounding menstruation around the world.

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Report on the WIPO Director General’s Meeting with NGO’s

Posted by Puneeth Nagaraj at Apr 30, 2014 05:33 AM |
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The Director General’s meeting with NGO’s was held on March 25, 2014. This is an annual meeting where accredited NGO’s have an opportunity to have a one on one discussion with the Director General on issues that concern them.

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CIS Statement at 27th SCCR on the WIPO Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Apr 30, 2014 05:25 AM |

The 27th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is being held in Geneva from April 28, 2014 to May 2, 2014. Nehaa Chaudhari, on behalf of CIS made the following statement on April 29, 2014.

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The Embodiment of the Right to Privacy within Domestic Legislation

Posted by Tanvi Mani at Apr 29, 2014 08:00 AM |

The Right to Privacy is a pivotal construct, essential to the actualization of justice, fairness and equity within any democratic society. It is an instrument used to secure the boundaries of an individual’s personal space, in his interaction with not only the rest of society but also the State.

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Net Neutrality, Free Speech and the Indian Constitution - II

Posted by Gautam Bhatia at Apr 29, 2014 07:42 AM |

In this 3 part series, Gautam Bhatia explores the concept of net neutrality in the context of Indian law and the Indian Constitution.

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Report on the 31st Session of the Standing Committee on Trademarks

Posted by Puneeth Nagaraj at Apr 29, 2014 04:00 AM |

Puneeth Nagraj reports about the 31st Session of the Standing Committee on Trademarks (SCT) that he attended.

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Central Government Schemes

Posted by Anandhi Viswanathan at Apr 27, 2014 03:00 PM |
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The various central government schemes are compiled in this blog post. This research was done by the Centre for Law and Policy Research and Anandhi Viswanathan.

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14 Odia books re-released under Creative Commons license

Posted by Subhashish Panigrahi at Apr 26, 2014 09:05 PM |

This blog entry by Subhashish Panigrahi (originally published in Wikimedia Foundation's Blog) was edited and re-published by Rohini Lakshane in DNA on April 26, 2014.

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Signing and Ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled

Posted by Nehaa Chaudhari at Apr 25, 2014 04:00 PM |

The Centre for Internet and Society sent the following letter to the Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development on March 14, 2014.

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Digital Humanities and the Problem of Definition

The Digital Humanities as a field that still eludes definition has been the subject of much discourse and writing. This blog post looks at this issue as one of trying to approach the field from a disciplinary lens, and the challenges that this may pose to the attempts at a definition.

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NETmundial Day 2

Posted by Achal Prabhala at Apr 25, 2014 04:58 AM |

Fadi Chehade, the ICANN boss, closed NETmundial 2014 with these words "In Africa we say if you want to go first, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together." He should have added: And if you want to go nowhere, go multi-stakeholder.

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NETmundial: Tracking *Multistakeholder* across Contributions

Posted by Sumandro Chattapadhyay at Apr 24, 2014 03:45 PM |

This set of analysis of the contributions submitted to NETmundial 2014 is part of the effort by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India, to enable productive discussions of the critical internet governance issues at the meeting and elsewhere.

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Brazil passes Marco Civil; the US-FCC Alters its Stance on Net Neutrality

Posted by Geetha Hariharan at Apr 24, 2014 09:20 AM |

Hopes for the Internet rise and fall rapidly. Yesterday, on April 23, 2014, Marco Civil da Internet, the Brazilian Bill of Internet rights, was passed by the Brazilian Senate into law.

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NETmundial Day 1

Posted by Achal Prabhala at Apr 24, 2014 09:02 AM |

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's speech at the opening of NETmundial in São Paulo was refreshingly free of the UN-speak that characterised virtually every single other presentation this morning. The experience of sitting for five hours in a room where the word "multi-stakeholder" is repeated at the rate of five mentions per minute is not for the faint-hearted; it almost makes you wish for more of the straight-talking tough-love of people like Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.

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NETmundial Transcript Archive

Posted by Pranesh Prakash at Apr 23, 2014 02:31 PM |

We are archiving the live transcript from the NETmundial meeting (April 23-24, 2014).

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NETmundial Roadmap: Defining the Roles of Stakeholders in Multistakeholderism

Posted by Jyoti Panday at Apr 23, 2014 01:30 PM |

NETmundial, one of the most anticipated events in the Internet governance calendar, will see the global community convening at Sao Paolo, with an aim to establish 'strategic guidelines related to the use and development of the Internet in the world.' This post analyses the submissions at NETmundial that focused on Roadmap, towards an understanding of stakeholder roles in relation to specific governance functions and highlighting the political, technical and architectural possibilities that lie ahead.

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