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Recommendations for the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-Win) platform
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by
Pallavi Bedi
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published
Mar 25, 2021
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last modified
Mar 25, 2021 01:14 PM
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filed under:
Aarogya Setu,
Health Tech,
Piracy,
internet governance,
Healthcare,
e-Governance
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Blog
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Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 2)
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by
Ananth Padmanabhan
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published
Feb 05, 2014
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last modified
Mar 06, 2014 04:48 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Piracy,
Featured,
Homepage
In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block dozens, if not hundreds, of websites. In this, the second part, he looks at the law laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court on secondary and contributory copyright infringement, and finds that those wouldn't allow Indian courts to grant "John Doe" orders against ISPs.
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Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? (Part 1)
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by
Ananth Padmanabhan
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published
Jan 30, 2014
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last modified
Jan 31, 2014 06:00 AM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
In a three-part study, Ananth Padmanabhan examines the "John Doe" orders that courts have passed against ISPs, which entertainment companies have used to block dozens, if not hundreds, of websites. In this part, he looks at the theory behind John Doe orders and finds that it would be wrong for Indian courts to grant "John Doe" orders against ISPs.
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Entertainment industry and Internet piracy in focus
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 17, 2012
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filed under:
Piracy,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
The first-of-its-kind initiative by the anti-piracy cell of the Kerala Police to register cases against 1,010 Internet users for uploading or downloading the Malayalam film Bachelor Party has sparked a debate between social media experts and legal puritans on what the law actually says.
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News & Media
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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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Twists and turns of the SOPA opera
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 16, 2012
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights
Proposed DNS filtering threatens the core protocol on which the Internet's universality depends, writes Deepa Kurup in this article published in the Hindu on 15 January 2012. Sunil Abraham is quoted in this.
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News & Media
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Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 01, 2011
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last modified
Dec 01, 2011 11:59 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Privacy,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Piracy,
Censorship,
WIPO
The seventh session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement is being held in Geneva on November 30 and December 1, 2011. Pranesh Prakash responded to a presentation by Prof. Pierre Sirinelli of the École de droit de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 on 'The French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting of December 16, 2009' 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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The 2010 Special 301 Report Is More of the Same, Slightly Less Shrill
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 13, 2010
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last modified
Oct 03, 2011 05:37 AM
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filed under:
Development,
Consumer Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Piracy,
Access to Medicine,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Data Protection,
FLOSS,
Technological Protection Measures,
Publications
Pranesh Prakash examines the numerous flaws in the Special 301 from the Indian perspective, to come to the conclusion that the Indian government should openly refuse to acknowledge such a flawed report. He notes that the Consumers International survey, to which CIS contributed the India report, serves as an effective counter to the Special 301 report.
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Piracy Studies in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM
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filed under:
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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