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Access to Knowledge Bulletin — April 2013: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 30, 2013 — last modified May 29, 2013 10:57 AM — filed under: Openness, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia
In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Kolkata, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.
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April 2013 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 30, 2013 — last modified May 31, 2013 08:07 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, CISRAW, Openness
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the fourth issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.
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A Treat for the Blind: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 27, 2013 — last modified Jul 11, 2013 06:02 AM — filed under: Copyright, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
The WIPO treaty will provide copyright exceptions on books making them available to blind people in formats they can use.
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May 2018 Newsletter: by Prasad Krishna — published May 31, 2018 — last modified Jun 12, 2018 02:03 PM — filed under: Internet Governance, Access to Knowledge
CIS newsletter for the month of May 2018.
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ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ತರಬೇತಿ ೨೦೧೮ @ ರಾಂಚಿ: by Vikas Hegde — published Jul 04, 2018 — last modified Jul 04, 2018 05:02 PM — filed under: WikipediansSpeak, Kannada Wikipedia, Wiki Advanced Training, Access to Knowledge
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರಾದ ವಿಕಾಸ್ ಹೆಗಡೆ ಅವರು Wiki Advanced Training 2018ರ ತಮ್ಮ ಅನುಭವ ಮತ್ತು ಕಲಿತ ವಿಚಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಈ ಬ್ಲಾಗಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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CIS anniversary: by Prasad Krishna — published May 06, 2013 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society will celebrate five years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its works and accomplishments.
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Copyrights Amendment Bill to Be Tabled in Indian Parliament – Parallel Import provisions have Been Removed: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 14, 2011 — 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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Putting a Lid on Royalty Outflows — How the RBI can Help Reduce India's IP Costs: by Sanjana Govil — published Jun 17, 2011 — last modified Jan 26, 2012 05:11 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
While entrepreneurs, IP rights-holders and everyone else who has a stake continue to voice their opinions on the appropriate shape that the Indian IP regime ought to take, they tend to narrow their discussions to the language of substantive IP laws. However, there are regulations that cannot be found in the Patent Act, Copyright Act or Trademarks Act which nevertheless have an impact on how much one is paying for intellectual property. Paying attention to these external factors might just provide a simple solution to your IP woes.
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Enforcement of Anti-piracy Laws by the Indian Entertainment Industry: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:35 AM — filed under: Piracy, Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Knowledge
This brief note by Siddharth Chadha seeks to map out the key actors in enforcement of copyright laws. These bodies not only investigate cases of infringement and piracy relating to the entertainment industry, but tie up with the police and IP law firms to pursue actions against the offenders through raids (many of them illegal) and court cases. Siddharth notes that the discourse on informal networks and circuits of distribution of cultural goods remains hijacked with efforts to contain piracy as the only rhetoric which safeguards the business interests of big, mostly multinational, media corporations.
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Arguments Against Software Patents in India: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 22, 2010 — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Access to Knowledge, Software Patents, Intellectual Property Rights, Publications, Patents
CIS believes that software patents are harmful for the software industry and for consumers. In this post, Pranesh Prakash looks at the philosophical, legal and practical reasons for holding such a position in India. This is a slightly modified version of a presentation made by Pranesh Prakash at the iTechLaw conference in Bangalore on February 5, 2010, as part of a panel discussing software patents in India, the United States, and the European Union.
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