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USOF Meeting in Delhi
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Stakeholders Meeting of the USOF - Agenda
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Sep 13, 2011 10:35 AM
Stakeholders Meeting of USOF was held on September 7, 2011 in New Delhi, the agenda for the meeting is enclosed.
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Stakeholders Meeting of the USOF on Facilitating ICT Access to Persons with Disabilities in Rural Areas
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 13, 2011
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Nov 08, 2011 05:55 AM
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The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a fund set up to provide universal access to telegraph services to rural and remote areas in India organized a stakeholders meeting on 7th September in New Delhi to launch a new scheme for supporting pilot projects for facilitating access to persons with disabilities in rural areas. Nirmita Narasimhan participated in this meeting and made a presentation.
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Copyrights Amendment Bill to Be Tabled in Indian Parliament – Parallel Import provisions have Been Removed
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 14, 2011
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
This week, the Indian government’s Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament) will debate the Copyright Amendments Act.
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Pornography & the Law - A Call for Peer Review
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 21, 2010
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Dec 14, 2012 12:12 PM
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histories of internet in India,
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Namita Malhotra's research project on "Pornography & the Law". is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Her monograph is an attempt to unravel the relations between pornography, technology and the law in the shifting context of the contemporary.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Porn: Law, Video, Technology
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Piracy Studies in India
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 22, 2010
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Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM
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Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights
The word ‘piracy’ assumes negative connotations. In the imagination of an ordinary middle class urban Indian it is linked directly to the informal economy, crime and even terrorism. But the ‘pirated good’, that is, the ‘optical disc’ is not seen with a similar perception. The ‘CD’ is the access key to the cultural wealth of music, cinema and software contained inside. This paradox is created in the sphere of information and knowledge that is created by anti-piracy agencies using extensive reports and statistics that are published every year. These statistics often have a tendency to create a feeling of ‘shock and awe’ for the readers that see these numbers splashed across headlines of news and media reports. Till 2004, the creation of numbers conjuring losses up to millions was mostly the domain of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which is now supplemented by reports commissioned to consultancy groups like McKinsey, PWC, and Ernst & Young. This article by Siddharth Chadha traces a few reports that have come to become popular benchmarks of piracy in the past few years.
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Enforcement of Anti-piracy Laws by the Indian Entertainment Industry
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 22, 2010
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Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
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This brief note by Siddharth Chadha seeks to map out the key actors in enforcement of copyright laws. These bodies not only investigate cases of infringement and piracy relating to the entertainment industry, but tie up with the police and IP law firms to pursue actions against the offenders through raids (many of them illegal) and court cases. Siddharth notes that the discourse on informal networks and circuits of distribution of cultural goods remains hijacked with efforts to contain piracy as the only rhetoric which safeguards the business interests of big, mostly multinational, media corporations.
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When Copyright Goes Bad
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 23, 2010
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Aug 04, 2011 04:37 AM
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A part of the Access to Knowledge Project, this short film by Consumers International is available on DVD and online at A2Knetwork.org/film.
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Privacy and the Indian Copyright Act, 1857 as Amended in 2010
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Prasad Krishna
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Aug 20, 2010
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Aug 23, 2011 03:25 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
In this post the author examines the issue of privacy in light of the Indian Copyright Act, 1857 as amended by the Copyright Amendment Bill in 2010. Four key questions are examined in detail and the author gives suitable recommendations for each of the questions that arise.
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