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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann
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Siddharth Chadha
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Mar 27, 2009
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Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
Digital Access,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
art and intervention,
Piracy,
Open Access,
innovation,
digital artists
Film-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: The Grey Market Deficit
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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published
Apr 29, 2009
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Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Cable TV
In this, the third entry in his series discussing the making of 'Dark Fibre' by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha gives an overview of piracy in the pay TV industry.
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The 2010 Special 301 Report Is More of the Same, Slightly Less Shrill
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Pranesh Prakash
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May 13, 2010
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Oct 03, 2011 05:37 AM
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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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The ASSOCHAM International Conference on the "Interface between Intellectual Property and Competition Law"
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by
Nehaa Chaudhari
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Jul 22, 2013
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Jul 22, 2013 05:54 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
An international conference on interface between intellectual property and competition law was organized by ASSOCHAM on July 12, 2013 in New Delhi. In this post, Nehaa Chaudhari shares select notes from the conference.
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The Bilski Case - Impact on Software Patents
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Aug 24, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 03:24 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Supreme Court of the United States gave its decision in Bilski v Kappos on 28 June, 2010. In this case the petitioners’ patent application sought protection for a claimed invention that explains how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market can protect, or hedge, against the risk of price changes. The Court in affirming the rejection by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also held that the machine- or-transformation test is not necessarily the sole test of patentability. The Court’s ruling of abstract ideas as unpatentable and its admission that patents do not necessarily promote innovation and may sometimes limit competition and stifle innovation have provided a ray of hope. In the light of the developments, the Bilski decision as far as patentability of software is concerned may not be totally insignificant, says Krithika Dutta Narayana.
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The Dark Fibre Files: 'Steal This Film' and the Pirate Bay Trial
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by
Sanchia de Souza
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May 21, 2009
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Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM
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Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Cable TV
In this posting, the fifth blog entry on the making of the film 'Dark Fibre' by Jamie King and Peter Mann, Siddharth Chadha discusses the Swedish trial of the Pirate Bay, which brought up some of the debates on intellectual property rights and piracy that were highlighted in 'Steal This Film'.
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The Digital Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Questions Raised by the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in India
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by
Sunil Abraham and Vidushi Marda
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published
Dec 09, 2016
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
This is an edited version of part three of a study that considers the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) through aspects of intellectual property in India, namely, mobile patents, free and open source software, and India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library. Through these, it demonstrates the potential of the internet in realising ESCRs.
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The First IJLT-CIS Lecture Series on Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Mar 30, 2010
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Apr 05, 2011 04:12 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights
The IJLT-CIS Lecture Series will be held at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore on 3 April, 2010.
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The Future of the Moving Image
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by
Nishant Shah
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Nov 10, 2008
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Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
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internet and society,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
internet art,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies
All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
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The Game of IPR: Insights from the 6th Global Intellectual Property Convention in Hyderabad
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by
Samantha Cassar
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Jan 31, 2014
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Jan 31, 2014 09:56 AM
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Patents,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
IP practitioners and IP creators were among the 1700 participants to gather at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre earlier this month. Here, CIS had the opportunity of listening in on perspectives around the “Optimization of economic value of innovation & IPR in the global market” while attending numerous talks and sessions that were held over the course of the convention’s three days.
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