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CIS Intervention on Future Work of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 01, 2011
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filed under:
Development,
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
WIPO
The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash intervened during the discussion of future work of the ACE with this comment.
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Calling Out the BSA on Its BS
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 09, 2011
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last modified
Sep 14, 2011 06:16 PM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is trying to pull wool over government officials' eyes by equating software piracy with tax losses. Pranesh Prakash points out how that argument lacks cogency, and that tax losses would be better averted if BSA's constituent companies just decided to pay full taxes in India.
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Photocopying the past
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 02, 2011
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last modified
Sep 25, 2011 08:06 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
There is no single correct position when it comes to intellectual property or IP. In fact, there are at least five correct positions that you could possibly adopt based on who you are — a pro-creator position, a pro-entrepreneur position, a pro-government position, a pro-consumer position and a public interest position.
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CIS Hosts Scanned Version of George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 01, 2011
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last modified
Dec 01, 2011 01:31 PM
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filed under:
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Verbindingen/Jonctions (V/J), the bi-annual multidisciplinary festival organised by Constant is taking place on December 1, 2011. Amateur scanning of books often raises a lot of questions, around the issue of copyright. For this V/J13 is scanning George Orwell’s Books vs. Cigarettes. The essay is in public domain in Russia, India and South Africa, but not in Europe and America due to copyright issues. CIS is hosting the scanned pages of the essay in public domain.
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Consumers International IP Watchlist 2011 — India Report
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 17, 2011
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last modified
May 29, 2014 05:52 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge
Pranesh Prakash prepared the India Report for the Consumers International IP Watchlist 2011. The report was published on the A2K Network website.
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Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 23, 2012
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last modified
Nov 12, 2013 02:13 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Fair Dealings,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Economics,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured,
Technological Protection Measures
There are some welcome provisions in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012, and some worrisome provisions. Pranesh Prakash examines five positive changes, four negative ones, and notes the several missed opportunities. The larger concern, though, is that many important issues have not been addressed by these amendments, and how copyright policy is made without evidence and often out of touch with contemporary realities of the digital era.
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CIS's Statement at SCCR 24 on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 22, 2012
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filed under:
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
This was the statement read out by Pranesh Prakash at the 24th meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights in Geneva, on Friday, July 20, 2012.
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CIS's Statement at SCCR 24 on Exceptions & Limitations for Libraries and Archives
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 25, 2012
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Fair Dealings,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Archives,
WIPO
This was the statement delivered by Pranesh Prakash on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at the 24th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights on the issue of exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives.
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Phone Spreadsheet
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by
Jadine Lannon
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published
Oct 30, 2012
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge
A documentation of the basic components and features of the mobile devices in a spreadsheet.
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Super Cassettes v. MySpace
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by
Ujwala Uppaluri
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published
Oct 30, 2012
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last modified
Oct 31, 2012 10:27 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured
The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace last July is worrying for a number of reasons. The court failed to appreciate the working of intermediaries online and disregard all pragmatic considerations involved. The consequences for free expression and particularly for file sharing by users of services online are especially unfavourable.
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