Access To Knowledge (A2K)

Access to Knowledge is a campaign to promote the fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development. It deals with issues like copyrights, patents and trademarks, which are an important part of the digital landscape. We prepared the India report for the Consumers International IP Watchlist, made submission to the HRD Ministry on WIPO Broadcast Treaty, questioned the demonisation of pirates, and advocated against laws (such as PUPFIP Bill) that privatize public funded knowledge.

Key Research

WIPO

Reports
WIPO Director General's Meeting with NGOs (Puneeth Nagraj, April 30, 2014). 31st Session of the Standing Committee on Trademarks (Puneeth Nagraj, April 29, 2014). CDIP-12 (Puneeth Nagraj, April 22, 2014). 26th SCCR: Consolidated Notes: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (Nehaa Chaudhari, March 18 - 21, 2014). 9th Session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement (Puneeth Nagraj, March 14, 2014).
Statements
29th SCCR: Statement on the Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching, Research Institutions and Persons with Disabilities (Nehaa Chaudhari; December 20, 2014). 29th SCCR: 2nd (brief) Intervention on the Broadcast Treaty (Nehaa Chaudhari; December 11, 2014). 29th SCCR: Intervention on the Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Nehaa Chaudhari; December 9, 2014). 28th SCCR: Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (Nehaa Chaudhari, July 3, 2014). 28th SCCR: Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Nehaa Chaudhari, July 2, 2014). 27th SCCR: Technical Measures of Protection on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (Nehaa Chaudhari, May 2, 2014). 27th SCCR: Orphan Works, Retracted and Withdrawn Works, and Works out of Commerce on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (Nehaa Chaudhari, May 1, 2014). 27th SCCR: WIPO Proposed Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Nehaa Chaudhari, April 30, 2014). 26th SCCR: Limitations and Exceptions for Education, Teaching and Research Institutions and Persons with Other Disabilities (Nehaa Chaudhari, December 20, 2013). 26th SCCR: Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives (Nehaa Chaudhari, December 19, 2013). Closing Statement at Marrakesh on the Treaty for the Blind (Pranesh Prakash, June 28, 2013). Intervention on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired (Pranesh Prakash, April 25, 2013). 25th SCCR: Broadcast Treaty and Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives (Smitha Krishna Prasad, November 29, 2012). 24th SCCR: Exceptions & Limitations for Libraries and Archives (Pranesh Prakash, July 25, 2012). 23rd SCCR: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty (Pranesh Prakash, November 29, 2011). 22nd SCCR: WIPO Broadcast Treaty (Pranesh Prakash, June 22, 2011). 21st SCCR: Statement on the Work of the Committee (Nirmita Narasimhan, November 23, 2010). 19th SCCR: WIPO Broadcast Treaty (Pranesh Prakash, February 1, 2010).
Analysis / Comments / Submissions
Protection of Broadcasting Organizations: Technical Background Paper Prepared by the WIPO Secretariat (Nehaa Chaudhari; June 28, 2015). Protection of Broadcasting Organisations under the Proposed Treaty as Compared to Other International Conventions (Nehaa Chaudhari; December 21, 2014). Proposed WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations (Nehaa Chaudhari, submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, December 7, 2013). Comments on the Broadcast Treaty and Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives (Smitha Krishna Prasad, November 29, 2012). Comment by CIS at ACE on Presentation on French Charter on the Fight against Cyber-Counterfeiting (Pranesh Prakash, December 1, 2011). Don't Shoot the Messenger: Speech on Intermediary Liability (Pranesh Prakash, July 8, 2011). CIS-TWN Analysis of WIPO Treaty for the Print Disabled (Pranesh Prakash, June 20, 2011). Comments to Ministry of Human Resource Development on WIPO Broadcasting Treaty (Pranesh Prakash, March 21, 2011).

Indian Law & Policies

Reports
Consumers International IP Watchlist 2012 (Pranesh Prakash, August 16, 2012). Consumers International IP Watchlist 2011 (Pranesh Prakash, May 17, 2011). Consumers International IP Watch List 2009 (Pranesh Prakash, June 5, 2009). A Guide to Key IPR Provisions of the Proposed India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (Glover Wright, July 13, 2010)
Analysis / Comments / Submissions
Can Judges Order ISPs to Block Websites for Copyright Infringement? - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (Ananth Padmanabhan, January 30, 2014 - February 14, 2014). Copyrights and Copywrongs Why the Government Should Embrace the Public Domain (Pranesh Prakash, Yojana, Issue: August 2013). Draft Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions (Puneeth Nagraj, submitted to the office of the Controller General of Patents Designs & Trademarks, Mumbai, July 26, 2013). Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft) (Snehashish Ghosh, submitted to the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, November 26, 2012). Super Cassettes v. MySpace (Ujwala Uppaluri, October 30, 2012). Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012 (Pranesh Prakash, May 23, 2012). Analysis of Copyright Expansion in the India-EU FTA (July 2010) (Snehashish Ghosh, February 20, 2012). Calling Out the BSA on Its BS (Pranesh Prakash, September 9, 2011). Thomas Abraham's Rebuttal on Parallel Importation (Pranesh Prakash, February 10, 2011). Indian Law and "Parallel Exports" (Pranesh Prakash, February 1, 2011). Why Parallel Importation of Books Should Be Allowed (Pranesh Prakash, January 25, 2011). Problems Remain with Standing Committee's Report on Copyright Amendments (Pranesh Prakash, December 16, 2010). Draft Patent Manual 2010 (Pranesh Prakash, December 5, 2010). Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 (Pranesh Prakash, July 18, 2010). The 2010 Special 301 Report Is More of the Same, Slightly Less Shrill (Pranesh Prakash, May 13, 2010). Technological Protection Measures in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 (Pranesh Prakash, April 28, 2010).
Articles (Journals / Magazines)
Intellectual Property Rights — Open Access for Researchers (Nehaa Chaudhari, UNESCO, March 2015). Pirates, Plagiarisers, Publishers (Prashant Iyengar, Economic & Political Weekly, February 26, 2011, Vol XLVI No 9). Exhaustion: Imports, Exports and the Doctrine of First Sale in Indian Copyright Law (Pranesh Prakash, Manupatra Intellectual Property Reports, February 25, 2011, Volume 1, Part 2, pp. 149-160). Of Jesters, Clowns and Pranksters: YouTube and the Condition of Collaborative Authorship (Nishant Shah, Journal of Moving Images, Number 8, December 2009). We’ve All Got Some Baggage (Lawrence Liang, Tehelka Magazine Vol 7, Issue 45, November 13, 2010). Exceptions and Limitations in Indian Copyright Law for Education: An Assessment (Lawrence Liang, The Land and Development Review, Volume 3, Issue 2, 2010)

Pervasive Technologies

Research Papers
Pervasive Technologies: Patent Pools (Nehaa Chaudhari, June 27, 2013). Patent Valuation and License Fee Determination in Context of Patent Pools (Vikrant Narayan Vasudeva, July 9, 2014). Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in India (Anubha Sinha; Good Life in Asia's Digital 21st Century Essay Collection; March 16, 2016).
Research Methodologies and Literature Surveys
Patent Landscaping (Rohini Lakshané; November 10, 2014) Intellectual Property in Mobile Application Development in India (Anubha Sinha; November 17, 2014). Access to Music through the Mobile (Maggie Huang; November 18, 2014). Sub Hundred Dollar Mobile Devices and Competition Law (Nehaa Chaudhari; November 25, 2014).

Key Research

WIPO

Indian Law & Policies

Pervasive Technologies

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