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Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Headed?
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Sep 12, 2016
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last modified
Sep 17, 2016 02:15 PM
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filed under:
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership,
Access to Knowledge
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – the Asian answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is still being furiously scripted.
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US Copyright law faces constitutional challenge
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Aug 11, 2016
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
In a major international development, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit to strike down the provisions on Digital Rights Management(DRM) in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In this post, I discuss DRMs, the EFF lawsuit, and then draw upon the differences between the US and Indian copyright regime on DRM protection.
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USTR elaborates the Two Dozen Digital Rules of Club TPP
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jul 29, 2016
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last modified
Jul 29, 2016 08:00 AM
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filed under:
Free Trade Agreement,
IPR,
Trans Pacific Partnership,
Access to Knowledge
Members of the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are now scrounging the world to include more countries in its fold. The Digital 2 Dozen(D2D) is a bite-sized document which packs the TPP into 24 key tenets. The D2D, aggressively championed by the US as the path forward for the global digital economy poses some critical questions for India: first, how will India position itself against US pressure in the larger scheme of US-India foreign relations, and how much is it willing to concede its policies in the name of trade; second, how will reduced barriers and establishment of a level field for Indian and foreign IT and internet companies alike, hurt Indian consumers and businesses?
This week, the Deputy US Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Holleyman discussed the Digital 2 Dozen document with Ambassador Shyam Saran (Chairman, RIS). The exchange was moderated by Samir Saran (Observer Research Foundation). I attended the discussion and this post is a summary of the key points.
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Letter to MPs on Concerns on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jul 29, 2016
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filed under:
RCEP,
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet and Society sent a letter to Members of Parliament on July 27, 2016 to appeal to re-examine the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jul 26, 2016
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last modified
Jul 26, 2016 09:23 AM
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filed under:
Open Government Data,
Open License,
Open Data,
NDSAP,
Featured,
Openness,
Homepage
The public consultation process of the draft open data license to be used by Government of India has ended yesterday. Here we share the text of the submission by CIS. It was drafted by Anubha Sinha, Pranesh Prakash, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Public Consultation for the First Draft of 'Government Open Data Use License - India' Announced
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jun 30, 2016
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 09:41 AM
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filed under:
Open Government Data,
Open License,
Open Data,
NDSAP,
Featured,
Openness
The first public draft of the open data license to be used by Government of India was released by the Department of Legal Affairs earlier this week. Comments are invited from general public and stakeholders. These are to be submitted via the MyGov portal by July 25, 2016. CIS was a member of the committee constituted to develop the license concerned, and we contributed substantially to the drafting process.
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Openness
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Workshop on Set-top Boxes
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Jun 23, 2016
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last modified
Jun 24, 2016 03:13 PM
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filed under:
Telecom,
Event,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is organising a one-day workshop in Delhi on Tuesday, July 12 on the evolution and state of the set-top box as an access device in India.
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Events
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Modi’s New Intellectual Property Rights Policy Will Only Benefit Players with Deep Pockets
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
May 28, 2016
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The new policy fails to enact a balanced regime and instead is tilted in favour of rights-holders.
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Shape of IPRs and Agriculture post the WTO Nairobi Ministerial
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
May 03, 2016
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last modified
May 05, 2016 07:11 AM
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filed under:
IP Meetup,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
WTO
CIS is running a series of meetups focused on intellectual property to bring folks interested in IP law to discuss developments in access to knowledge, climate change, health, trade, etc.
At the first meet-up in February, Prof. Biswajit Dhar delivered a short talk on intellectual property rights and agriculture in a post-Nairobi Ministerial world. This post is a summary of his talk.
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Summary of CIS Comments to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Apr 26, 2016
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last modified
Apr 26, 2016 12:07 PM
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filed under:
DIPP,
Intellectual Property Rights,
FRAND,
Access to Knowledge
This blog post summarises CIS’ responses to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms. The response made specific recommendations regarding adequacy of Indian law to determine SEP litigation, remedies for FRAND assured SEPs, FRAND royalty rates, SSO’s policies, parties’ non-disclosure agreements and transparency, and essentiality of SEPs and their declassification.
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