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World IT Forum 2009
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Pranesh Prakash
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Sep 08, 2009
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
At the World IT Forum, Pranesh Prakash made a brief presentation on intellectual property rights, how ill-suited they are to be considered "property" rights, and how they have been foisted upon the developing world.
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Don't Shoot the Messenger: Speech on Intermediary Liability at 22nd SCCR of WIPO
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jul 08, 2011
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Jun 01, 2012 03:01 PM
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Intermediary Liability,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
This is a speech made by Pranesh Prakash at an side-event co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Internet Society on intermediary liability, to coincide with the release of Prof. Lillian Edwards's WIPO-commissioned report on 'Role and Responsibility of the Internet Intermediaries in the Field of Copyright'.
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We’ve All Got Some Baggage
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Lawrence Liang
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Nov 13, 2010
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last modified
May 29, 2014 07:22 AM
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America’s newest trade agreement is not going to kill only iPods. The article appeared in the Tehelka Magazine Vol 7, Issue 45, Dated November 13, 2010
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Statement of CIS on the Work of the Committee in the 21st SCCR
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Nirmita Narasimhan
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Nov 23, 2010
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May 29, 2014 06:57 AM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
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The twenty-first session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was held in Geneva from 8 to 12 November 2010. Nirmita Narasimhan attended the conference and represented the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Problems Remain with Standing Committee's Report on Copyright Amendments
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Pranesh Prakash
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Dec 16, 2010
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Sep 06, 2011 07:50 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Technological Protection Measures
The Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (under which ministry copyright falls) recently tabled their report on the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 before Parliament. There is much to be applauded in the report, including the progressive stand that the Committee has taken on the issue of providing access by persons with disabilities. This post, however, will concern itself with highlighting some of the problems with that report, along with some very important considerations that got missed out of the entire amendment debate.
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Seminar on Software Patent and the Commons
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 02, 2010
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Oct 23, 2011 02:22 PM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Software Patents,
Access to Knowledge
A pre-grant opposition has been filed against a software patent application filed in the patent office by Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research in Motion (RIM), manufacturers of Blackberry. The opposition was filed on August 31, 2010 by the Software Freedom Law Centre which has recently expanded its operations to India. This exciting development was announced by Mishi Choudhary from SFLC on the lines of the seminar on “Software Patents and the Commons” organised on 1 September 2010 in Delhi jointly by SFLC, the Centre for Internet and Society, the Society for Knowledge Commons and Red Hat. Filing more such oppositions to software patents in India was in the pipeline and this is just the beginning of a movement to take on monopolisation of knowledge and ideas through patenting software, the organisers said.
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New Release of IPR Chapter of India-EU Free Trade Agreement
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 12, 2011
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 12:34 PM
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Access to Medicine,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Access to Knowledge
A draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available now for the first time, provides insight into India's response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual property protection and enforcement.
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Why Parallel Importation of Books Should Be Allowed
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Pranesh Prakash
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Jan 25, 2011
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Feb 01, 2019 05:41 PM
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Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
There has been much controversy lately with some publishers trying to stop the government from amending s.2(m) of the Indian Copyright Act, clarifying that a parallel import will not be seen as an "infringing copy". This blog post argues that the government should, keeping in mind the larger picture, still go ahead and legalise parallel imports.
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Indian Law and "Parallel Exports"
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Pranesh Prakash
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Feb 01, 2011
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Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
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Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
Recently, a lawyer for the publishing industry made the claim that allowing for parallel importation would legally allow for the exports of low-priced edition. Here we present a legal rebuttal of that claim.
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Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation
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Pranesh Prakash
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Feb 10, 2011
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Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM
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Consumer Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge
We engaged in an e-mail conversation with Thomas Abraham, the managing director of Hachette India, on the issue of parallel importation of books into India. We thought it would be in the public interest to publish a substantive part of that conversation. In this post he points at great length how our arguments are faulty. While we still believe that he doesn't succeed, we hope this will clarify matters a bit.
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