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Access to Knowledge
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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.
22 Jan 2015
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Musician donates Gwalior Gharana songs to free e-libraryA few years ago, Mumbai-based musician Neela Bhagwat realized that her old notebooks filled with lyrics and notations of age-old 'bandishes' were in tatters. Afraid that she might lose them forever, Bhagwat decided to make fresh copies.
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 …
18 Jan 2015
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Seventh Global Intellectual Property ConventionThe Seventh Global IP Convention took place in Mumbai from January 15 to 17, 2015. Rohini Lakshané attended the event.
16 Jan 2015
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Centre should partner local communities in 'Digital India': ExpertThe central government needs to partner communities at the grassroots level and integrate the country's vernacular component to make the Digital India initiative a success, an expert said here Friday.
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 …
9 Jan 2015
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India at Leisure: Media, Culture and Consumption in the New EconomyMaggie Huang attended the event and presented a paper titled “The Future of Music Streaming: Business Practices and Copyright Management in India”. The paper was co-authored by Maggie and Amba Kak.
7 Jan 2015
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India Public Libraries ConferenceThe India Public Libraries Conference is being held from March 17 to 19, 2015 at the India International Centre in New Delhi. It is being organized by DELNET and Digital Empowerment Foundation. The Centre for Internet & Society is a …
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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Works of Veerasalingam Pantulu on webAndhra Loyola College in association with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS- A2K) is conducting a six-day camp titled ‘Wiki Winter’ at Wikipedia Lab in the campus.
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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Wiki Winter Camp - Coverage in SakshiMedia coverage for the Wiki winter camp held at Andhra Loyola College.
31 Dec 2014
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Wiki Winter Camp - Coverage in EenaduMedia coverage of Wiki Winter Camp held at Andhra Loyola College.
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.
27 Dec 2014
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Access to Rare Books Made EasyRare Odia books that are out of print and not easily accessible on the internet, will now be available at the click of the mouse. In a bid to make them available online, the Odia Wikipedia community last week launched WikiSource, an Odia …
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 …
19 Dec 2014
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WIPO Delegates Hear Concerns of NGOs on Exceptions for LibrariesAs World Intellectual Property Organization member states launched into discussions on exceptions and limitations to copyright for the benefit of libraries and archives this week, non-governmental organisations were given the opportunity to …
18 Dec 2014
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At WIPO, Study On Copyright Exceptions Stimulates Broad Discussion With AuthorDuring the recent meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee, a study was presented on exceptions and limitations to copyright for libraries and archives at the national level. The presentation spurred a …
15 Dec 2014
15 Dec 2014
News
Tulu Wikipedia - Coverage in Vijaya KarnatakaThis is the coverage in Vijaya Karnataka on December 15.
14 Dec 2014
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Tulu Wikipedia Presentation: Coverage in Kannada PrabhaDr. U.B. Pavanaja made a presentation on Tulu Wikipedia at a workshop held in Mangalore on December 14, 2014. This was covered by Kannada Prabha.
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.