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Copyright, patents and Indian-language Wikimedia projects. 1,320 items.
23 Mar 2015
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Mobile App Developer Series: Terms of Agreement – Part IVThe following is Part Four in a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Through this research, CIS attempts to understand how the developers interviewed engage …
19 Mar 2015
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Intellectual Property Rights — Open Access for ResearchersIn the year 2013, Nehaa Chaudhari had worked on a module on Intellectual Property Rights for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Open Access Curriculum (Curriculum for Researchers) as part of a …
19 Mar 2015
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Announcing the dates, theme and tentative tracks for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015We are pleased to announce that the Global Congress will be held from 15th-17 December 2015. The theme of the 2015 Global Congress is Three Decades of Openness; Two Decades of TRIPS. The four tentative tracks include Openness, User Rights, …
15 Mar 2015
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Compilation of Mobile Phone Patent Litigation Cases in IndiaThis working paper is an attempt to chronicle information about big-ticket lawsuits pertaining to mobile technology patents filed in India. All information presented in this paper has been gathered from publicly available sources. Interns …
27 Feb 2015
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Hindi Wiki Community Baithak in DelhiHindi Wikimedians met in New Delhi during February 14 and 15. This was the first meeting of the Hindi community. Subhashish Panigrahi attended the meetup.
26 Feb 2015
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Telugu Wikipedia Winter Camp at Andhra Loyola CollegeStudents of physics, statistics and Telugu departments of Andhra Loyola College spent 5 days of their Christmas vacation of 2014 to edit and enrich Telugu Wikipedia and Wikisource. They worked on their respective subject areas and came up …
21 Feb 2015
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Our Endangered LanguagesMy op-ed (in Odia) about the endangered languages was published in the Samaja this 21st on the International Mother Language Day.
16 Feb 2015
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Academia and Civil Society submit critical comments to DIPP on draft National IPR PolicyAs our readers may be aware, the DIPP had initiated public consultation on the drafting of India’s first National IPR policy in November 2014.
10 Feb 2015
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Open Letter to Prime Minister ModiAfter the government introduced the "Make in India" and "Digital India" programmes, the air is thick with the promise of reduced imports, new jobs, and goods for the domestic market. In light of the patent wars in India, the government can …
9 Feb 2015
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National IPR Policy Series : RTI Requests to DIPP seeking Details on the IPR Think Tank and the National IPR PolicyIn an earlier blog post titled " National IPR Policy Series : The Development of the National IPR Policy", we discussed the formation of an IPR Think Tank to draft the first National IPR Policy. Since many details about the constitution and …
9 Feb 2015
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A Wikipedia Presentation at BITS, GoaQuark is one of India's largest science, technology and management festivals, held every February at BITS Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. This year in 2015, the event was held from February 6 to 8, 2015. This blog post captures the key …
4 Feb 2015
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National IPR Policy Series : CIS Comments to the First Draft of the National IP PolicyThe Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Government of India invited comments on the First Draft of India's National IPR Policy. The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) made this submission. The comments were prepared by Nehaa …
31 Jan 2015
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ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷା ପାଇଁ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପThis is an op-ed I authored for Odia newspaper the "Samaja" that got published on January 30, 2015. Through this post I intend to highlight the needs for taking the Odia language to international fora instead of keeping it confined within …
31 Jan 2015
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Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon 2014Telugu Wikimedia (including their projects Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource etc.) is one of the largest and most powerful Indian language Wikimedia projects, and it is growing and expanding everyday. In the last half of 2014, Telugu …
31 Jan 2015
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RTI Responses - MHRD IP Chairs: Details of Funding & ExpenditureIn an earlier blog post titled "MHRD IPR Chairs — Underutilization of Funds and Lack of Information Regarding Expenditures", we discussed the lack of information regarding the expenditure by various MHRD Chairs in the country. We sent out …
22 Jan 2015
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National IPR Policy Series : The Development of the National IPR PolicyThis is the first blog post in a series of posts on India's National IPR Policy. In this post, CIS intern, Varnika Chawla traces the evolution of the National IPR Policy.
20 Jan 2015
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Beyond Alcohol and Angel Investors: Building Business Models in an Age of Mobile Music Streaming (Conference Learnings)This blog post is the first of a series of blogs to document, synthesize, and analyze learnings from attending various music industry trade conferences. This first post introduces the research question, and highlights learnings about the …
12 Jan 2015
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Disability Exceptions in Copyright LegislationsIn the year 2006, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conducted a study on different national approaches to copyright exception for persons with disabilities. Over 60 countries have an exception in their Copyright laws …
7 Jan 2015
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Announcing the Institutional Partner for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015We are pleased to announce that National Law University, Delhi will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in December 2015.
1 Jan 2015
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Pervasive Technologies Project Working Document Series: Document 2 Literature Review on Competition Law + IPR + Access to < $100 Mobile DevicesThis note is the second document in the series of Working Documents that I will be creating for my research under the Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace (“PT Project”).
31 Dec 2014
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Literature Survey: Patent Landscaping in the Indian MarketplaceThis literature survey identifies previously published research relevant to the research on patent landscaping in the Indian mobile device market, which has been undertaken as a part of the Pervasive Technologies project. This document is a …
30 Dec 2014
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Odia Wikisource workshop at New DelhiThe Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team in collaboration with "The Intellects" organized a seminar in New Delhi on December 14, 2014. Subhashish Panigrahi gave a talk.
28 Dec 2014
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Several Publications Now Available under Creative Commons LicenseThe Centre for Internet and Society has got the following publications under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license. These are from multiple authors.
26 Dec 2014
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Government Intervention in the Marketplace: Policies for Access or Politics? (Interviews with Semiconductor Industry – Part 4)This is the last of a four-part blog series highlighting findings from a small sample of interviews with fabless semiconductor industry professionals in Taiwan. These industry insiders was approached for the intent of understanding expert …
26 Dec 2014
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[Open] Innovation and Expertise > Patent Protection & Trolls in a Broken Patent Regime (Interviews with Semiconductor Industry - Part 3)This is the third of a four-part blog series1 highlighting findings from a small sample of interviews with fabless semiconductor industry professionals in Taiwan. These industry insiders was approached for the intent of understanding expert …
26 Dec 2014
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“Copyright Management in the Age of Mobile Music” - Living Methodology DocumentThis blog post outlines the research methodology for a chapter in the Pervasive Technologies: Access to the Marketplace project, in which access to the mobile phone hardware, software, and content is assessed within the intellectual …
21 Dec 2014
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CIS Submission to the Expert Committee: Protection of Broadcasting Organisations under the Proposed Treaty as Compared to Other International ConventionsThis 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 …
20 Dec 2014
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29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: Statement on the Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching, Research Institutions and Persons with DisabilitiesAt 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 …
14 Dec 2014
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29th Session of the WIPO SCCR: CIS Intervention : Questions to Prof. Kenneth Crews on his Updated Study on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and ArchivesNehaa 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.
13 Dec 2014
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Creating Free Software Environment at Andhra Loyola CollegeAndhra Loyola college has signed an MoU with CIS-A2K and as part of it CIS-A2K team has provided a free and open software environment at Andhra Lyola College's Computer Center. Thirty machines have been installed with free software …