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                                      2019 International Asia Conference
                                    
 
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ITECHLAW organized the 2019 edition of International Asia Conference at JW Marriott hotel in Bangalore on January 31, 2019 and February 1, 2019. Sunil Abraham was a panelist in the session "Policy Making for the Emerging Tech in India".
                                      
                                          
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                                      A beauty’s blog creates furore
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Her first Tamil poetry anthology Otraiyilaiyena (As a single leaf) saw three editions and the second one Ulagin Azhagiya Muthal Penn (The first beautiful woman in the world) invited mixed reactions like Iyal Poetry Award and a call for a ban by Hindu Makkal Katchi. Parathaiyarul Raani (Queen of sluts) her third collection was a reaction to all the moral policing. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      A Deep Dive into Content Takedown Timeframes
                                     
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                                              Torsha Sarkar
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Since the 1990s, internet usage has seen a massive growth, facilitated in part, by growing importance of intermediaries, that act as gateways to the internet. Intermediaries such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs), web-hosting providers, social-media platforms and search engines provide key services which propel social, economic and political development. However, these developments are also offset by instances of users engaging with the platforms in an unlawful manner. The scale and openness of the internet makes regulating such behaviour challenging, and in turn pose several interrelated policy questions.
                                      
                                          
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                                      A Guide to Key IPR Provisions of the Proposed India-European Union Free Trade Agreement
                                     
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                                              Glover Wright
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Centre for Internet and Society presents a guide for policymakers and other stakeholders to the latest draft of the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement, which likely will be concluded by the end of the year and may hold serious ramifications for Indian businesses and consumers. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      A look at two problematic provisions of the draft Anti-trafficking bill
                                     
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This post examines two badly drafted provisions of the new Anti-Trafficking bill that have the potential to severely impinge upon the Freedom of Expression, including through a misunderstanding of intermediary liability. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      A trust deficit between advertisers and publishers is leading to fake news
                                     
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                                              Sunil Abraham
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Transparency regulations is need of the hour. And urgently for election and political advertising. What do the ads look like? Who paid for them? Who was the target? How many people saw these advertisements? How many times? Transparency around viral content is also required.
                                      
                                          
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                                      An Evidence based Intermediary Liability Policy Framework: Workshop  at IGF 
                                     
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                                              Jyoti Panday
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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CIS is organising a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum 2014. The workshop will be an opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on the changing definition of intermediaries and their responsibilities across jurisdictions and technologies and contribute to a comprehensible framework for liability that is consistent with the capacity of the intermediary and with international human-rights standards.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012
                                     
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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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                                      Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part II
                                     
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                                              Snehashish Ghosh
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Snehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked list”). 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Centre for Internet and Society joins the Dynamic Coalition for Platform Responsibility
                                     
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                                              Jyoti Panday
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has joined the multistakeholder cooperative engagement amidst stakeholders towards creating Due Diligence Recommendations for online platforms and Model Contractual Provisions to be enshrined in ToS. This blog provides a brief background of the role of dynamic coalitions within the IGF structure, establishes the need for the coalition and provides an update on the action plan and next steps for interested stakeholders.
                                      
                                          
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