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The perils of not protecting intellectual property for new ventures
by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 20, 2015 — filed under:
Soothe Healthcare's big dilemma ahead of the launch of its affordable sanitary napkin was whether or not to patent the technology and design.
Located in Access to Knowledge / News & Media
Blog Entry The Procedure of CCI in cases of Anti-Competitive Agreements and Abuse of Dominant Position: A Flow-Chart
by Sarthak Sood — published Nov 24, 2015 — filed under:
The Competition Act, 2002 defines and prohibits two things- Anti-Competitive Agreements, and Abuse of Dominant Position. The cases under the Competition Act are adjudicated upon by a special tribunal called the Competition Commission of India. As with any judicial or quasi-judicial authority, the Commission is bound by certain procedures to give effect to its duties. The following flow-chart, then, explains such procedures as followed by the CCI in adjudicating upon matters concerning anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position.
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The Relaunch of Creative Commons India
by Prasad Krishna — published Nov 03, 2013 — last modified Dec 11, 2013 08:12 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Wikimedia India, the Centre for Internet and Society, and Acharya Narendra Dev College invite you to the Relaunch of Creative Commons India in New Delhi on November 12, 2013 with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr. Shashi Tharoor as the Chief Guest.
Located in Openness / Events
Blog Entry The STI Policy Proposes a Transformative Open Access Approach for India
by Anubha Sinha — published Apr 28, 2021 — filed under: ,
Anubha Sinha explains what the draft national Science, Technology and Innovation policy means for open access to scientific literature for Indians. This article was first published in The Wire Science on January 21, 2021.
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Blog Entry The US 301 Report – A Myopic View of IP Rights
by Nehaa Chaudhari — published Jun 24, 2015 — filed under: ,
Varun Baliga and Nehaa Chaudhari discuss the 2015 US 301 Report, focussing on its narrow and convenient understanding of IP rights. A farrago of contradictions, it supports a rightsholder-centric view but not when the right, Geographical Indicator, is not to their liking. Similarly, the emphasis on the rights themselves gives short shrift to critical exceptions and limitations that also enhance and incentivize innovation, the ostensible purpose of IP.
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Blog Entry The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Injunctions
by Lawrence Liang — published Jun 15, 2012 — filed under: ,
The same ‘Ashok Kumar,' now restrained from infringing the copyright of the film, ‘3,' helped its signature song, ‘ Kolaveri,' go viral by downloading and copying it without any restraints, writes Lawrence Liang in this Op-ed published in the Hindu on May 23, 2012.
Located in Access to Knowledge
File The World Blind Union document
by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2012 07:25 AM — filed under: ,
WBU Version of the Working Document
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Blog Entry Thematic Edit-a-thon at J.P.Naik Centre for Education & Development, Pune
by Subodh Kulkarni — published May 10, 2017 — last modified Jun 07, 2017 08:59 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
A Marathi Wikipedia workshop was held at the J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development in Pune recently.
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Blog Entry Thematic Edit-a-thon at Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara
by Subodh Kulkarni — published Jun 11, 2017 — last modified Jul 11, 2017 09:35 AM — filed under: , , , , ,
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Blog Entry This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language
by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Feb 03, 2016 — last modified Feb 27, 2016 07:33 AM — filed under: , ,
Depicting human language within computing environments has always been a challenge: a given language's script and alphabet needs to be mapped to a coding system that a computer can process digitally. This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
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The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is a non-profit organisation that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The areas of focus include digital accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights, openness (including open data, free and open source software, open standards, open access, open educational resources, and open video), internet governance, telecommunication reform, digital privacy, and cyber-security. The research at CIS seeks to understand the reconfiguration of social processes and structures through the internet and digital media technologies, and vice versa.

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