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Year Ahead Copyright 2010: Between An Enforcement “Gold Standard” And Stronger Limitations: by Prasad Krishna — published Feb 04, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:43 PM — filed under: Intellectual Property Rights
Whereas copyright is increasingly being exchanged for contractual relationships why all the debate and new efforts in national and international copyright legislation. Monika Ernet's article in the Intellectual Property Watch examines this in the wake of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the international treaty on access to online books for the visually impaired. The article also carries Pranesh Prakash's views on introduction of technical protection measures and the protection of them by law.
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The Right to Read Campaign, now in Delhi: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:45 AM — filed under: Featured, Accessibility
The Right to Read campaign, this time in Delhi, the national capital of the country has been announced. This is the third in the series. The previous two held in Calcutta and Chennai were highly successful and Delhi too promises quite a lot.
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IGF 2009 - Main Session: Emerging Issues: Social Networks: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 18, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:46 PM — filed under: Internet Governance
Current laws don't seem to scale well to handle Web 2.0 issues
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Wiki's worth, on a different turf: by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 15, 2010 — last modified Oct 23, 2012 08:33 AM — filed under: Openness
An Indian duo–a programmer and a mathematician–have developed a tool to expose anonymous writers and cleanse Wikipedia of rogue editors
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When Whistle Blowers Unite: by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 14, 2010 — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:17 AM — filed under: Digital Activism, Internet Governance
Leaking corporate or government information in public interest through popular Web service providers is risky but Wikileaks.org is one option that you could try out.
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Time Out Bengaluru - Software Patenting: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 06:39 AM — filed under: Openness, Software Patents, Access to Knowledge
An article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.
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World Day Against Software Patents: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 10, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 07:15 AM — filed under: Software Patents, Access to Knowledge
A global coalition of more than 80 software companies, associations and developers has declared the 24th of September to be the "World Day Against Software Patents". The Hindu, a national daily dedicated one page of its Bangalore edition to software patents and software freedom. Deepa Kurup contributed written two articles titled "Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?" and "How would it be if you read only one type of book?" which reflects some of the concerns of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community.
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Drawing maps for change: by Radha Rao — published Jan 04, 2010 — last modified Apr 04, 2011 06:49 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
Digital maps can hold immense academic value – an article by Deepa Kurup, The Hindu, 3rd Jan, 2010.
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Openness, Videos, Impressions: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 28, 2009 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:23 PM — filed under: Conference, Open Standards, Art, Workshop, Digital Access, FLOSS, Open Content, Archives, Openness, Open Innovation, Meeting, Open Access
The one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities, potentials, mechanics and politics of Open Video. Nishant Shah, who participated in the conversations, was invited to summarise the impressions and ideas that ensued in the day.
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Open Content and Access in the Knowledge Society: by Radha Rao — published Dec 21, 2009 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:08 AM
Open Content and Access: Democratising and Disruptive Impacts on the Knowledge Society - by Madanmohan Rao, Editor, The KM Chronicles - Bangalore; Dec 16, 09
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