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Intermediary Liability
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24 May 2012
News
MPs oppose curbs on internet; Sibal promises discussionsWith MPs raising concerns over open-ended interpretations of restrictive terms in the rules seeking to regulate social media and internet, the government promised to evolve a consensus on points of contention.
24 May 2012
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Google Policy Fellowship Programme: Call for ApplicationsThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is inviting applications for the Google Policy Fellowship programme. Google is providing a USD 7,500 stipend to the India Fellow, who will be selected by August 15, 2012.
23 May 2012
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Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012There are some welcome provisions in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012, and some worrisome provisions. Pranesh Prakash examines five positive changes, four negative ones, and notes the several missed opportunities. The larger concern, …
30 Apr 2012
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Chilling Effects and Frozen WordsWhat if the real danger is not that we lose our freedom of speech and expression but our sense of humour as a nation? Lawrence Liang's op-ed was published in the Hindu on April 30, 2012.
27 Apr 2012
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Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the InternetThe Centre for Internet & Society in partnership with Google India conducted the Google Policy Fellowship 2011. This was offered for the first time in Asia Pacific as well as in India. Rishabh Dara was selected as a Fellow and researched …
26 Apr 2012
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India's Broken Internet Laws Need a Shot of Multi-stakeholderismCyber-laws in India are severely flawed, with neither lawyers nor technologists being able to understand them, and the Cyber-Law Group in DEIT being incapable of framing fair, just, and informed laws and policies. Pranesh Prakash suggests …
11 Apr 2012
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A beauty’s blog creates furoreHer first Tamil poetry anthology Otraiyilaiyena (As a single leaf) saw three editions and the second one Ulagin Azhagiya Muthal Penn (The first beautiful woman in the world) invited mixed reactions like Iyal Poetry Award and a call for a …
10 Apr 2012
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Intermediary Liability in India: Chilling Effects on Free Expression on the Internet 2011Intermediaries are widely recognised as essential cogs in the wheel of exercising the right to freedom of expression on the Internet. Most major jurisdictions around the world have introduced legislations for limiting intermediary liability …
27 Mar 2012
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Statutory Motion Against Intermediary Guidelines RulesRajya Sabha MP, Shri P. Rajeev has moved a motion that the much-criticised Intermediary Guidelines Rules be annulled.
25 Jan 2012
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How India Makes E-books Easier to Ban than Books (And How We Can Change That)Without getting into questions of what should and should not be unlawful speech, Pranesh Prakash chooses to take a look at how Indian law promotes arbitrary removal and blocking of websites, website content, and online services, and how it …
15 Dec 2011
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Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being SeenThe Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the …
8 Dec 2011
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Press Coverage of Online Censorship RowWe are maintaining a rolling blog with press references to the row created by the proposal by the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology to pre-screen user-generated Internet content.
7 Dec 2011
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Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and ImpracticalThe Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. Pranesh Prakash takes issue with this and explains why this is a problem, even if …
8 Jul 2011
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Don't Shoot the Messenger: Speech on Intermediary Liability at 22nd SCCR of WIPOThis is a speech made by Pranesh Prakash at an side-event co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Internet Society on intermediary liability, to coincide with the release of Prof. Lillian Edwards's …
25 May 2011
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Killing the Internet Softly with Its RulesWhile regulation of the Internet is a necessity, the Department of IT, through recent Rules under the IT Act, is guilty of over-regulation. This over-regulation is not only a bad idea, but is unconstitutional, and gravely endangers freedom …
13 May 2011
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Rebuttal of DIT's Misleading Statements on New Internet RulesThe press statement issued on May 11 by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) on the furore over the newly-issued rules on 'intermediary due diligence' is misleading and is, in places, plainly false. We are presenting a …
25 Feb 2011
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CIS Para-wise Comments on Intermediary Due Diligence Rules, 2011On February 7th 2011, the Department of Information Technology, MCIT published draft rules on its website (The Information Technology (Due diligence observed by intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011) in exercise of the powers conferred by …
12 Jan 2011
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New Release of IPR Chapter of India-EU Free Trade AgreementA draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available now for the first time, provides insight into India's response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual property protection and enforcement.
16 Dec 2010
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Problems Remain with Standing Committee's Report on Copyright AmendmentsThe Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (under which ministry copyright falls) recently tabled their report on the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 before Parliament. There is much to be applauded in the report, …
13 Jul 2010
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A Guide to Key IPR Provisions of the Proposed India-European Union Free Trade AgreementThe Centre for Internet and Society presents a guide for policymakers and other stakeholders to the latest draft of the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement, which likely will be concluded by the end of the year and may hold serious …
29 Jul 2009
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Primer on the New IT ActWith this draft information bulletin, we briefly discuss some of the problems with the Information Technology Act, and invite your comments.
28 Jul 2009
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Comments on the Draft Rules under the Information Technology ActThe Centre for Internet and Society commissioned an advocate, Ananth Padmanabhan, to produce a comment on the Draft Rules that have been published by the government under the Information Technology Act. In his comments, Mr. Padmanabhan …