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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India': by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 26, 2016 — last modified Jul 26, 2016 09:23 AM — 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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Letter to MPs on Concerns on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 29, 2016 — 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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USTR elaborates the Two Dozen Digital Rules of Club TPP: by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 29, 2016 — last modified Jul 29, 2016 08:00 AM — 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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US Copyright law faces constitutional challenge: by Anubha Sinha — published Aug 11, 2016 — 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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Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015: by Anubha Sinha — published Jul 30, 2014 — last modified Jun 24, 2015 04:45 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India, tentatively in the first two weeks of December, 2015. This post seeks your participation and invites your queries and suggestions for the event.
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Announcing the Tracks for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015: by Anubha Sinha — published Aug 22, 2014 — last modified Aug 22, 2014 09:47 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Global Congress, Access to Knowledge
CIS recently announced that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India, tentatively in the first two weeks of December, 2015. This post declares the track events to be conducted, seeks your participation and invites contributions from potential funders.
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Consultation on 'National Geospatial Policy' - Notes and Submission: by Anubha Sinha — published Mar 29, 2016 — last modified Mar 29, 2016 05:03 PM — filed under: Open Data, Open Government Data, Featured, Geospatial Data, Openness, Digital India
The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has constituted a National Expert Committee for developing a draft National Geospatial Policy (NGP) to provide appropriate guidelines for collection, analysis, use, and distribution of geospatial information across India, and to assure data availability, accessibility and quality. A pre-drafting consultation meeting for the NGP was organised in Delhi on February 03, 2016. Ms. Anubha Sinha represented CIS at the meeting, and shares her notes.
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Update on Publisher’s Copyright Infringement Suit Against Sci-Hub and LibGen in India: by Anubha Sinha — published Apr 28, 2021 — filed under: Limitations & Exceptions, Copyright, Access to Knowledge, Court Case
Anubha Sinha provides a summary of the progress of the copyright infringement suit against Sci-Hub and LibGen in India. This article was first published in InfoJustice on March 8, 2021.
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Pervasive Technologies Project Working Document Series: Literature Review on IPR in Mobile app development: by Anubha Sinha — published Apr 29, 2015 — last modified Aug 31, 2015 01:48 PM — filed under: Homepage, Access to Knowledge, Pervasive Technologies
This post is literature survey of material exploring and analysing the role of Application Platforms in the Mobile Applications Development ecosystem, albeit from an intellectual property perspective. The document is a work in progress.
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37th SCCR: CIS Statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: by Anubha Sinha — published Nov 29, 2018 — last modified Nov 29, 2018 10:08 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, WIPO
Anubha Sinha, attending the 37th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“SCCR”) at Geneva from November 26, 2018 to November 30, 2018, made this statement on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations on behalf of CIS on Day 1, November 26.
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