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Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 14, 2011
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Google,
Access to Knowledge,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.
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Internet Governance
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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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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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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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Blogs
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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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Blogs
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Statement of CIS on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty at the 23rd SCCR
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Nov 29, 2011
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last modified
Nov 30, 2011 06:55 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Broadcasting,
WIPO
The twenty-third session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is being held in Geneva from November 22, 2011 to December 2, 2011. Pranesh Prakash delivered this statement on a new proposal made by South Africa and Mexico (SCCR/23/6) on a treaty for broadcasters.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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CIS-TWN Analysis of WIPO Treaty for the Print Disabled (SCCR/22/15)
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Oct 04, 2011
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last modified
Oct 12, 2011 08:29 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
CIS and the Third World Network (TWN) conducted a quick analysis of the "Consensus document on an international instrument on limitations and exceptions for persons with print disabilities presented by Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and the United States of America" presented as WIPO document numbered SCCR/22/15.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Exhaustion PDF
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Oct 03, 2011 05:16 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
file
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Access to Knowledge
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Publications
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September 2011 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 26, 2011
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last modified
Jul 30, 2012 06:34 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this issue we are pleased to present you the latest updates about our research, upcoming events, and news and media coverage that happened in the month of September 2011.
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Copyrights Amendment Bill to Be Tabled in Indian Parliament – Parallel Import provisions have Been Removed
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 14, 2011
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
This week, the Indian government’s Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament) will debate the Copyright Amendments Act.
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News & Media
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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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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
