Blogs
Announcing the Tracks for the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest 2015
- August 22, 2014
CIS recently announced that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India, tentatively in the first two weeks of December, 2015. This post declares the track events to be conducted, seeks your participation and invites contributions from potential funders.
Read more →Andhra Loyola College and the Centre for Internet & Society sign MoU for Better Net Access
- August 19, 2014
Andhra Loyola College (ALC) and the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge team (CIS-A2K) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to steward the growth of Telugu Wikipedia and to make available free knowledge in Telugu to all Telugus across the globe.
Read more →Preventive Detention for Copyright Violation: Karnataka Amends the 'Goondas' Act
- August 13, 2014
Last week, the Government of Karnataka amended the Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Gamblers Act, 1985 (“the Karnataka Goondas Act”). The Karnataka Goondas Act would now also apply to offences under the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000. This article presents an overview on the various provisions of this law and discusses the potential impact of the amendment.
Read more →28th Session of the WIPO SCCR: Report on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
- August 07, 2014
The 28th Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (“the Committee” / "SCCR") took place in Geneva from June 30, 2014 to July 04, 2014. In this article, Nehaa Chaudhari, who attended this meeting on behalf of CIS, discusses the developments that took place with reference to the proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (“Broadcast Treaty”).
Read more →Interviews with App Developers: [dis]regard towards IPR vs. Patent Hype – Part II
- August 04, 2014
The following is a second post within a series reporting on interviews conducted with 10 of Bangalore's mobile app developers and other industry stakeholders. Within this research, CIS attempts to understand how they engage with the law within their practice, particularly with respect to IP. Here we examine how these developers responded to a question on legal protection for their works.
Read more →Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015
- July 30, 2014
We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Internet and Society will be hosting the fourth edition of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at New Delhi, India, tentatively in the first two weeks of December, 2015. This post seeks your participation and invites your queries and suggestions for the event.
Read more →Grounds for Compulsory Patent Licensing in United States, Canada, China, and India
- July 29, 2014
The research paper seeks to answer questions about the grounds of compulsory licensing in international treaties with specific examples from America and Asia. The grounds for granting compulsory licenses, jurisdictional comparison of compulsory licensing, etc., are examined.
Read more →Doctors and Translators Are Working Together to Bridge Wikipedia's Medical Language Gap
- July 28, 2014
I interviewed Wikimedian User:CFCF who is managing the entire project to understand how it is going to work and wrote on Global Voices' Rising Voices about it.
Read more →Classical Odia Language in the Digital Age
- July 28, 2014
The essay was published in the June edition of Odisha Review, a magazine published by Government of Odisha's Department of Information and Public Relations.
Read more →ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷରସଜ୍ଜା
- July 28, 2014
This article was published in the Samaja (Odia newspaper) on July 4, 2014.
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