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Eben Moglen: by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 11, 2008 07:40 AM
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Engaging on the Digital Commons: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 12:56 PM — filed under: Digital Access, Openness, Commons, Digital Governance
We at the Centre for Internet and Society are very glad to be able to participate in the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). Our interest in the conference arises mainly from our work in the areas of intellectual property rights reform and promotion of different forms of ‘opennesses’ that have cropped up as a response to perceived problems with our present-day regime of intellectual property rights, including open content, open standards, free and open source software, open government data, open access to scholarly research and data, open access to law, etc., our emerging work on telecom policy with respect to open/shared spectrum, and the very important questions around Internet governance. The article by Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash was published in the journal Common Voices, Issue 4.
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Exhaustion: Imports, Exports and the Doctrine of First Sale in Indian Copyright Law: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified May 29, 2014 06:18 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
This article by Pranesh Prakash was published in the Manupatra Intellectual Property Reports, February 2011, Volume 1, Part 2, pp. 149-160. In this short note, the author argues that Indian courts have fundamentally misunderstood the doctrine of first sale, and consequently have wrongly held that parallel importation is disallowed by Indian law. He further looks at the ingenuity displayed by a court in prohibiting export of low-priced editions from India, and comes to the conclusion that this is also wrong in law. He believes there is a way out of this quagmire that we find ourselves in due to judicial inventions: that of accepting a proposed amendment to the Copyright Act.
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Fallacies, Lies, and Video Pirates: by Pranesh Prakash — published Aug 24, 2009 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:43 AM — filed under: Featured, Intellectual Property Rights
At a recent conference on counterfeiting and piracy, industry representatives variously pushed for stiffer laws for IP violation, more stringent enforcement of existing IP laws, and championed IP as the most important thing for businesses today. This blog post tries to show how their arguments are flawed.
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Feedback to Draft Copyright Rules, 2012: by Pranesh Prakash — published Sep 29, 2012 — last modified Oct 04, 2012 04:53 AM — filed under: Copyright, Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society submitted its written comments on the Draft Copyright Rules, 2012 to Mr. G.R. Raghavender, Registrar of Copyrights & Director (BP&CR), Ministry of Human Resource Development.
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Financial Express hosts #NetNeutralityDebate: ‘Price discrimination can be allowed, but not for the same packet of data’: by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 27, 2015 — last modified Apr 27, 2015 02:18 AM — filed under: Net Neutrality, Internet Governance
Trying to cut through the noise on Net Neutrality in India, FICCI in partnership with Financial Express is hosting a panel discussion titled ‘Decoding Net Neutrality’ in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Fixing India’s anarchic IT Act: by Pranesh Prakash — published Nov 28, 2012 — last modified Nov 30, 2012 06:33 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship, Information Technology
Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act criminalizes “causing annoyance or inconvenience” online, among other things. A conviction for such an offence can attract a prison sentence of as many as three years.
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Framing an Alternative Approach to the Jan Lokpal: by Pranesh Prakash — published Aug 01, 2011 — last modified Oct 11, 2011 11:42 AM — filed under: Lecture
The National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are organizing a public talk on "Framing an Alternative Approach to the Jan Lokpal" on Friday, August 5, 2011 at CIS, Bangalore. Shankar Singh, Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy of MKSS and NCPRI will be speaking.
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Free and Open Source Software: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 11, 2010
Free and open source software (FOSS) is a good thing from both the perspective of programmer and user freedoms as well as from the perspective of better and more efficient software production. Also, FOSS forms the backbone of the Internet (BIND/NSD for DNS servers, Apache for web servers, sendmail/postfix/qmail for mail servers, Asterisk for VoIP servers, etc.), and the Internet as we know it would not exist without FOSS.
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Free and Open Source Software: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 08, 2009 — last modified Jan 11, 2010 10:59 AM
Free and open source software (FOSS) is a good thing from both the perspective of programmer and user freedoms as well as from the perspective of better and more efficient software production. Also, FOSS forms the backbone of the Internet (BIND/NSD for DNS servers, Apache for web servers, sendmail/postfix/qmail for mail servers, Asterisk for VoIP servers, etc.), and the Internet as we know it would not exist without FOSS.
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