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Rebuttal of DIT's Misleading Statements on New Internet Rules: by Pranesh Prakash — published May 13, 2011 — last modified Jul 11, 2012 01:18 PM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, IT Act, Featured, Intermediary Liability
The press statement issued on May 11 by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) on the furore over the newly-issued rules on 'intermediary due diligence' is misleading and is, in places, plainly false. We are presenting a point-by-point rebuttal of the DIT's claims.
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CDT Provides Answers to Questions on Internet Neutrality: by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 26, 2011 — last modified Jun 04, 2012 05:56 AM — filed under: Net Neutrality, Internet Governance
Pranesh Prakash of CIS asked David Sohn of CDT a few pointed questions on the emerging hot topic of 'Internet neutrality', and received very useful responses. Those questions and Mr. Sohn's responses are documented in this blog post.
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DIT's Response to RTI on Website Blocking: by Pranesh Prakash — published Apr 07, 2011 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:13 AM — filed under: IT Act, Featured, Internet Governance, Censorship
For the first time in India, we have a list of websites that are blocked by order of the Indian government. This data was received from the Department of Information Technology in response to an RTI that CIS filed. Pranesh Prakash of CIS analyzes the implications of these blocks, as well as the shortcomings of the DIT's response.
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Comments to the Ministry on WIPO Broadcast Treaty (March 2011): by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 21, 2011 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:29 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Intellectual Property Rights, Broadcasting, Submissions, Technological Protection Measures
As a follow up to a stakeholder meeting called by the MHRD on the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, CIS provided written comments on the April 2007 Non-Paper of the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, emphasising the need for a signal-based approach to be taken on the Broadcast Treaty, and making it clear that India should continue to oppose the creation of new rights for webcasters.
Located in Access to Knowledge / Blogs
RTI Applications on Blocking of Websites: by Pranesh Prakash — published Mar 08, 2011 — last modified Dec 21, 2012 06:34 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, IT Act, RTI, Public Accountability
In recent weeks, an increasing number of incidents have come to light on government-ordered blocking of websites. In one case involving Zone-H.org, it is clear who has ordered the block (a Delhi district court judge, as an interim order), even though the block itself is open to constitutional challenge. In all others cases, including the TypePad case, it is unclear who has ordered the block and why. We at CIS have sent in two right to information requests to find out.
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Exhaustion: Imports, Exports and the Doctrine of First Sale in Indian Copyright Law: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified May 29, 2014 06:18 AM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
This article by Pranesh Prakash was published in the Manupatra Intellectual Property Reports, February 2011, Volume 1, Part 2, pp. 149-160. In this short note, the author argues that Indian courts have fundamentally misunderstood the doctrine of first sale, and consequently have wrongly held that parallel importation is disallowed by Indian law. He further looks at the ingenuity displayed by a court in prohibiting export of low-priced editions from India, and comes to the conclusion that this is also wrong in law. He believes there is a way out of this quagmire that we find ourselves in due to judicial inventions: that of accepting a proposed amendment to the Copyright Act.
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CIS Para-wise Comments on Intermediary Due Diligence Rules, 2011: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Jul 11, 2012 10:27 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, IT Act, Intermediary Liability
On February 7th 2011, the Department of Information Technology, MCIT published draft rules on its website (The Information Technology (Due diligence observed by intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011) in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 87(2)(zg), read with Section 79(2) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Comments were invited from the public before February 25th 2011. Accordingly, Privacy India and Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore have prepared the following para-wise comments for the Ministry’s consideration.
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Engaging on the Digital Commons: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 25, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 12:56 PM — filed under: Digital Access, Openness, Commons, Digital Governance
We at the Centre for Internet and Society are very glad to be able to participate in the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). Our interest in the conference arises mainly from our work in the areas of intellectual property rights reform and promotion of different forms of ‘opennesses’ that have cropped up as a response to perceived problems with our present-day regime of intellectual property rights, including open content, open standards, free and open source software, open government data, open access to scholarly research and data, open access to law, etc., our emerging work on telecom policy with respect to open/shared spectrum, and the very important questions around Internet governance. The article by Sunil Abraham and Pranesh Prakash was published in the journal Common Voices, Issue 4.
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CIS Comments on the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I): by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 23, 2011 — last modified May 22, 2013 10:48 AM — filed under: Open Standards, Openness, Submissions
In November 2010, the Central Government released the Draft 0.6 of the Technical Standards for the Interoperability Framework for e-Governance (Phase I), requesting comments by January 27, 2011. Here are the comments that CIS submitted.
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Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation: by Pranesh Prakash — published Feb 10, 2011 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:47 AM — filed under: 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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