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Access to Knowledge
Copyright, patents and Indian-language Wikimedia projects. 1,320 items.
25 Feb 2013
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International Conference on Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarity, MethodologyThe Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia organises an international conference on contours of media governance at Jamia Milla Islamia in New Delhi from February 25 to 27, 2013. The event is supported by Ford …
11 Feb 2013
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Wiki Meet-up in Bangalore: Talk by Vishnu VardhanVishnu Vardhan, Director of Access to Knowledge team at CIS has been invited by the Bangalore SIG Chair. Vishnu will speak on the Access to Knowledge (Wikipedia) project. The talk is scheduled for February 25, 2013 at 2.00 p.m. in …
10 Feb 2013
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Sanskrit Wikiquote — Now Available!The Access to Knowledge team at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is happy to celebrate the availability of Sanskrit wikiquote.
10 Feb 2013
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Rahul Cherian passes awayRahul Cherian, an expert and policy activist in disability law, intellectual property (IP) law and technology law passed away on Thursday. He was 39.
21 Jan 2013
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Fifth International IPR Conference (GIPC 2013)ITAG Business Solutions is organizing its Fifth International IPR conference "GIPC 2013" at Hotel LaLit Ashok, Bangalore, India on the theme "IPR: The Powerhouse of Tomorrow". Snehashish Ghosh is participating in the event and will speak on …
21 Dec 2012
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WIPO To Negotiate Treaty For The Blind In June; ‘Still Some Distance To Travel’In a swift 15 minute session this morning delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization extraordinary assembly agreed to convene a high-level meeting in Morocco in June to finalise a treaty on international exceptions to …
21 Dec 2012
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International treaty to make books accessible to the blindIt would make it legal to send accessible books across borders.
5 Dec 2012
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A Report of Odia Wikipedia Workshop at IIT, KharagpurThe Samaja, Odia daily, Kolkata edition, on December 3, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia Workshop organized in IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
28 Nov 2012
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વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી માં પણ છેWe've recently been featured in the Gujarati magazine on technology: Cybersafar. The below article was written by Harsh Kothari.
23 Nov 2012
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OdishaDiary conferred prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to Odia Wikipedia teamOdishaDiary (Orissadiary.com) conferred the prestigious Odisha Youth Inspiration Award 2012 to the team of contributors of Odia Wikipedia.
19 Nov 2012
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A Report of the Odia Wikipedia Workshop held in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar(By Debapriya Priyadashi Chakra) Sambad, Odisha's most widely read and largest circulated daily, on November 19, 2012, published an article about the Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in KMBB College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
19 Nov 2012
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‘Some Indian laws could be challenging’Wikipedia’s founder member Erik Möller says their principle is not to decide the map of India, but to explain that there is a controversy.
17 Sep 2012
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Entertainment industry and Internet piracy in focusThe first-of-its-kind initiative by the anti-piracy cell of the Kerala Police to register cases against 1,010 Internet users for uploading or downloading the Malayalam film Bachelor Party has sparked a debate between social media experts …
13 Aug 2012
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Copyright Law: More Than A Moral ObligationIt was a cozy and warm atmosphere in a bookstore in South Delhi — with plenty of cushions thrown on the floor — that I attended a delightful book launch for children. The book was displayed prominently, along with some fabulous original …
2 Aug 2012
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US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to booksCopyright fears stall talks on books being translated into braille for blind and visually impaired people in the global south.
1 Aug 2012
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U.S. support sought for treaty to allow blind people access to copyrighted worksAdvocates of visual disability groups from across the world urged the United States to get off the fence at the global copyright negotiations in Geneva this week and actively back a strong treaty that allows blind people access to …
25 Jul 2012
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EU stalls treaty talks to allow copyright waiver for print disabilitiesIndia and other developing countries support such a legally binding treaty, writes Priscilla Jebaraj in an article published in the Hindu on July 25, 2012. Pranesh Prakash is quoted.
17 Jun 2012
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Concerns raised ahead of proposed India-US trade treatyAs efforts are on to step-up discussions on the proposed Bi-lateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between India and the US , concerns are being raised on the dispute settlement mechanism between an investor and the State.
1 Jun 2012
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The International Copyright System and Access to Education: Challenges, New Access Models and Prospects for New PrinciplesThis event organised by Max Planck Institute was held in Munich, Germany on May 14 and 15, 2012. Pranesh Prakash participated in this event.
31 May 2012
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Towards a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ‘Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics’This event was organised by Digital Empowerment Foundation, National Internet Exchange of India and Association for Progressive Communications at Mirza Ghalib Hall, SCOPE Complex, New Delhi from 9.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. on May 3, 2012. …
29 May 2012
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Will the Copyright Law Help the Starving Artist?By law, producers are no longer allowed to keep all the royalties to songs, lyrics or other works of arts. Now, these rights will have to be shared with the artist who created them.
28 May 2012
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Did Sibal just get arm-twisted by book publishers?The publishing industry seems to have got the better of the Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal. Pranesh Prakash's article on parallel importation of books is referred in this article published in FirstPost on May 25, 2012.
9 Apr 2012
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Hacking, Modding & MakingSeeber's electronics laboratory is a room in a unit he shares with his mother. Every available space is taken up with teetering towers of electronic parts, writes Brendan Shanahan for GQ.
7 Mar 2012
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Consumers International Global Meeting 2012Pranesh Prakash participated in the Consumers International Global Meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on March 8 and 9, 2012. He spoke on UN Consumer Guidelines. Robin Brown, Tobias Schönwetter and Guilherme Varella were the other speakers in the …
14 Sep 2011
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Copyrights Amendment Bill to Be Tabled in Indian Parliament – Parallel Import provisions have Been RemovedThis week, the Indian government’s Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament) will debate the Copyright Amendments Act.
11 Jan 2010
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World Day Against Software PatentsA global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to …
11 Jan 2010
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Time Out Bengaluru - Software PatentingAn article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.