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Copyright, patents and Indian-language Wikimedia projects. 1,320 items.
19 Oct 2015
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CIS Participated in T20 Mumbai, Regional Consultation Meeting, October 19, 2015This is the first time that a T20 event, which is a series of preparatory meetings towards G20 summits, is taking place in India. Sumandro Chattapadhyay represented CIS in this consultation, and was a discussant in the session on …
18 Oct 2015
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National IPR Policy Series: Quick Observations on the Leaked Draft of the National IPR PolicyEarlier this week, the “Don’t Trade Our Lives Away” blog leaked the supposed final draft of India’s National IPR Policy (“leaked draft”). This article presents quick comments on this leaked draft.
15 Oct 2015
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Comparison of National IPR Strategy September 2012, National IPR Strategy July 2014 and Draft National IP Policy, December 2014This is an analysis of the first draft of India's National IPR Policy with an earlier document "India's National IPR Strategy".
14 Oct 2015
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Contestations of Data, ECJ Safe Harbor Ruling and Lessons for IndiaThe European Court of Justice has invalidated a European Commission decision, which had previously concluded that the 'Safe Harbour Privacy Principles' provide adequate protections for European citizens’ privacy rights for the transfer of …
11 Oct 2015
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WikipediansSpeak: Telugu Language Library Catalog Project Helps Wikipedia GrowIn 2013, the interview project “WikipediansSpeak” was launched in response to observations that many noteworthy Wikimedians were being underrepresented both locally and globally. Not just them personally—their work, and the communities they …
11 Oct 2015
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CIS-India Projects: Overlaps with Digital IndiaThis post documents the overlap of CIS India's work with the nine pillars of the Digital India campaign. The list reflects work completed/underway as of September 2015.
10 Oct 2015
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Otago Southland are the CoolestLIANZA Otago Southland are delighted to announce our speaker, Subhashish Panigrahi (@subhapa), from the Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge programme, will be tuning in via the interwebs from India to share his vision of …
6 Oct 2015
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4th Annual US - China IP Conference: Best Practices for Innovation and CreativityBhairav Acharya attended this conference organized by Berkeley Law, University of California on October 6, 2015.
4 Oct 2015
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Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series – Updated Research Methodology – Applying the Actor Network Theory to Competition Law and Standard Essential Patent Litigation in IndiaThis document lays out the updated research methodology for the paper on competition law issues around standard essential patent litigation in India.
1 Oct 2015
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National Conference: WTO, FTAs and Investment Treaties: Implications for development policy spaceThe conference was jointly organized by Focus on the Global South, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), Madhyam, MSF Access Campaign, National Working Group on Patent Laws and WTO (NWGPL), Public Services International …
30 Sep 2015
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Unable to read Odia on your android device? Don’t fret!If you get only boxes in place of Odia fonts in your Android device then it does not support the language. So you need to install Odia font in your smart phone; one way is to root it, but it’s not without cons.
27 Sep 2015
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Wikimedia contributor shares his Linux storyComputers have fascinated me since childhood, but my first encounter—like many others—was not with Linux. For me, it was with Microsoft Paint. Then, many years later in 2011, it was my Wikipedia mentor, Shiju Alex, who introduced me to …
26 Sep 2015
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IPEX 2015Rohini Lakshané attended IPEX 2015 organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, APTDC and TDPC on September 25 - 26, 2015 at Hotel Westin in Chennai.
26 Sep 2015
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Google's Optical Character Recognition Software Now Works with All South Asian LanguagesThe Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software by Google now works for more than 248 world languages, including all the major South Asian languages, and it's easy to use and works with over 90 percent accuracy for most languages.
26 Sep 2015
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As Odia Wikipedia turns 13, what happens next?Odia Wikipedia, one of several Indian-language Wikipedia projects, celebrated thirteen years of free knowledge contribution on June 3.
25 Sep 2015
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Software Freedom PledgeOn September 19, 2015, celebrated globally as Software Freedom Day, a number of enthusiasts got together and collectively took a pledge.
25 Sep 2015
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OCR and OER – updateWe welcome this short posting from Subhashish Panigrahi which updates a 2014 posting of his on Indic Language Wikipedias as Open Educational Resources at http://education.okfn.org/indic-language-wikipedias-as-open-educational-resources/
25 Sep 2015
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FAQ: CIS' Proposal for Compulsory Licensing of Critical Mobile TechnologiesEarlier this year, the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) had proposed that the Government of India (GoI) initiate the formation of a patent pool of critical mobile technologies and mandate a five percent compulsory license. The proposal …
24 Sep 2015
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Open letter from CIS to PM Modi on Intellectual Property Rights issues on his Visit to USCentre for Internet and Society, through its Policy Director Mr. Pranesh Prakash and Programme Officer Nehaa Chaudhari has addressed an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the intellectual property right issues concerning his …
23 Sep 2015
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Open Letter to PM Modi on Intellectual Property Rights issues on His Visit to the United States of America in September, 2015This is an open letter by CIS to the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi in light of his impending visit to the USA. This letter asks the Prime Minister to urge the USA to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty; and asks that India not be a party to …
21 Sep 2015
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Comments on the Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (CRIs)Recently, the Indian Patents Office released the Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions (“2015 Guidelines/ Guidelines”) in an attempt to clarify examination of software related patents in India. This post is a pure …
20 Sep 2015
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Transformaking 2015 : International Summit on Critical and Transformative Making, YogyakartaTransformaking 2015 brought together makers, scientist, hackers, bricoleurs, researchers, artists, designers and other interdisciplinary practitioners from across the globe in a series of Residency and Research Program, Symposium, …
5 Sep 2015
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Pervasive Technologies: Working Document Series - Research Questions and a Literature Review on the Actor-Network TheoryThis document is divided into two parts - the first part lays out a series of research questions, potentially seeking to apply actor-network theory as a research methodology. The second part seeks to map literature around the Actor-Network …
2 Sep 2015
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CIS brings Nadustunna Charithra magazine under by CC BY SA licenceAs a part of its content donation initiative, the Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) has brought all issues of Nadustunna Charithra magazine under Creative Common Licence.
23 Aug 2015
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Letter questions the propriety of CCI’s participation in ASSOCHAM conferenceSerious concerns relating to conflict of interest have been raised against participation of CCI at the ASSOCHAM IP conference to be held soon.
23 Aug 2015
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Conflict of interest cloud over CCI chiefThe chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and three of the six commission members are participating in a conference organised by Assocham and sponsored by private companies like Ericsson, trade associations and two legal …
23 Aug 2015
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'We Need to Proactively Ensure that People Can't File Patents Representative of the Creativity of a FOSS Community'Rohini Lakshané attended “Open Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Our Digital Culture” in Bangalore on August 13, 2015. Major takeaways from the event are documented in this post.
21 Aug 2015
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Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articlesA three-day Kannada Wikipedia edit-a-thon was conducted for science lecturers of institutions who gathered at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Bengaluru this August 18. The idea of this event was to improve …
16 Aug 2015
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Talamaddale on August 23A talamaddale ‘Karna Chedana’ and ‘Shalya Nirgamana’ will be organised at Abhisheka mandira on the premises of Manjunatha temple at Kadri on August 23 at 2.30 p.m. Yakshagana playback singers Balipa Narayana Bhagawatha and Puttige Raghurama …
14 Aug 2015
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ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) has ongoing partnership with SDM College, Ujire. Students of Masters in Communication and Journalism will be writing articles in Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year’s programme was inaugurated …