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Submission to DIPP at Meeting with IP Stakeholders
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Anubha Sinha
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Dec 12, 2017
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last modified
Jan 01, 2018 01:27 AM
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Access to Knowledge
Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) made a submission to the Department of Industrial Planning and Promotion (DIPP) on 7 December 2017.
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Submitted Comments on the 'Government Open Data Use License - India'
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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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Summary of CIS Comments to DIPP’s Discussion Paper on SEPs and their availability on FRAND terms
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Anubha Sinha
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Apr 26, 2016
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last modified
Apr 26, 2016 12:07 PM
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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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Super Cassettes v. MySpace (Redux)
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Anubha Sinha
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Jan 16, 2017
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last modified
Jan 18, 2017 02:31 PM
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filed under:
Intermediary Liability,
Copyright,
Censorship,
Access to Knowledge
The latest judgment in the matter of Super Cassettes v. MySpace is a landmark and progressive ruling, which strengthens the safe harbor immunity enjoyed by Internet intermediaries in India. It interprets the provisions of the IT Act, 2000 and the Copyright Act, 1957 to restore safe harbor immunity to intermediaries even in the case of copyright claims. It also relieves MySpace from pre-screening user-uploaded content, endeavouring to strike a balance between free speech and censorship. CIS was one of the intervenors in the case, and has been duly acknowledged in the judgment.
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The new Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions are a big win for FOSS in India!
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Anubha Sinha
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Feb 23, 2016
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last modified
Feb 24, 2016 06:30 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Patents,
Access to Knowledge,
Software Patents
India is one of the few countries which permits patenting of software – a monopolization that has only benefited established corporations and largely throttled innovation in the software industry, worldwide. CIS has consistently advocated against patentablity of software and in a major victory last week, software patenting in India died a little more. This happened via the newly issued Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, which introduces a new test to restrict software patenting – in essence the same legal test that CIS had been proposing since 2010. This post highlights the new test and other noteworthy changes in the Guidelines.
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The STI Policy Proposes a Transformative Open Access Approach for India
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Anubha Sinha
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Apr 28, 2021
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filed under:
Open Access,
Access to Knowledge
Anubha Sinha explains what the draft national Science, Technology and Innovation policy means for open access to scientific literature for Indians. This article was first published in The Wire Science on January 21, 2021.
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Update on Publisher’s Copyright Infringement Suit Against Sci-Hub and LibGen in India
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Apr 28, 2021
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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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US Copyright law faces constitutional challenge
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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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Anubha Sinha
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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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Views on on the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations at side-event organised by Knowledge Ecology International
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Nov 29, 2018
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filed under:
Limitations & Exceptions,
Access to Knowledge,
Broadcast Treaty,
Broadcasting,
WIPO
On November 27, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) organised a side event during deliberations of the 37th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Centre for Internet & Society (CIS), Electronic Information for Libraries (eiFL.net), Corporacion Innovarte, Creative Commons, and Knowledge Ecology International appraised the current text for the proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Revised Consolidated Text on Definitions, Object of Protection, Rights to be Granted and Other Issues, SCCR/36/6).
Speakers provided an overview of the treaty, explained the potential risks and problems caused, and proposed solutions to narrow the Treaty’s scope and limit the damage.
Below is a transcript of the remarks made by Anubha Sinha who represented CIS at this event.
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