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6th Annual International Conference on Law & Policy issues "68th Constitution Day"
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<b>Anubha Sinha attended the 68th Constitution Day on November 25, 2017 at Shangri-La's Eros. Indian National Bar Association in association with “Make in India” organized this event.</b>
<p>Download the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/files/68th-constitution-day"><b>brochure</b></a></p>
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No publisherAdminAccess to Knowledge2017-11-27T13:53:07ZNews Item5th Global Congress On IP And The Public Interest: Successes, Strategies Highlighted
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<b>More than 400 activists, academics and practitioners from over 50 countries gathered at this year’s Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, according to organisers.</b>
<p>The story by David Branigan was published in <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/10/03/5th-global-congress-ip-public-interest-successes-strategies-highlighted/">Intellectual Property Watch</a> on October 3, 2018.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">At the Congress, participants shared success stories, developed strategies, and engaged in critical dialogue to re-think and re-invent intellectual property systems that serve the public interest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/event-summary-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">5th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and The Public Interest</a> was hosted by American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC from 27-29 September. The core goal of the Congress, according to the website, is “to promote evidence-based policy-making by fostering partnerships between academics and policy advocates from around the world.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Congress featured three concurrent, but interconnected, tracks centred around copyright user rights, access to medicines, and trade. A list of the many panels, workshops and other events of the Congress can be found in the event <a href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/agenda-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">agenda</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Key themes that emerged from the plenary sessions of the Congress include the need to take a critical look at the association between intellectual property and development, the important roles that both IP activism and academic research play in shifting practice, and the complex tension between pursuing incremental IP reform in the short-term, while envisioning and building toward IP system change in the long-term.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants were asked by organisers to contribute statements and to vote in an online poll to chart and map participant perspectives at this year’s Congress. The interactive results of the poll can be viewed <a href="https://pol.is/report/r7k76vmnhmnann5npxdmk">here</a>.</p>
<p><b>Access to Medicines Track</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Intellectual Property Watch</i> followed the access to medicines track throughout the Congress, to develop a broad picture of the persistent challenges and new strategies in this field, and to identify key initiatives to feature in the coming months. Below are some of the themes that emerged over the course of the sessions, along with key highlights.</p>
<p><b>Compulsory Licensing</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Some participants highlighted their countries’ use of compulsory licensing to reduce drug prices and to maximise health budget capacity, with notable examples from Ecuador, Chile and Malaysia. Participants identified that many other countries, however, are not taking full advantage of these flexibilities, which can be partly attributable to a lack of awareness regarding these flexibilities, and a lack of systems to employ them. They noted that this is often compounded by IP-centric technical assistance that frames strong IP systems as necessary for development. Many participants argued that compulsory licensing, along with other intellectual property flexibilities, should be fully normalised, and that IP law should be structured to maximize the use of these flexibilities, rather than treat them as exceptions. Some also argued for the institution of international or regional coordination mechanisms for compulsory licensing.</p>
<p><b>Competition Law</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants, representing activist organisations working for access to medicines, noted that their campaigns were largely focused on the price of a particular drug in a particular country. Pursuing access to medicines on such a piecemeal basis, they explained, does not produce sustainable change within the IP system itself. This, they noted, is a similar challenge faced when issuing compulsory licences. Participants explained that pursuing strategies based in competition law could perhaps offer a more sustainable solution to address excessive pricing across a range of drugs. This strategy, they explained, could move forward key legal reforms to systemically challenge pharmaceutical monopolies and bring about more competitive drug pricing.</p>
<p><b>Innovation</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">According to participants, the term innovation infers a particular narrative, similar to “intellectual property,” and has been used by industry to justify the pharmaceutical patent system. One participant explained that patents are currently being granted on the basis of utility, rather than real inventiveness. He explained that the term innovation has come to represent the industry-led process of shaping markets and cycles of consumption, and that therefore, we need to reconsider our use of the term.</p>
<p><b>Research and Development</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Many participants highlighted the dysfunction of the current monopoly incentive system for pharmaceutical research and development, and advocated for other systems such as delinking the price of pharmaceuticals from the cost of research and development and the volume of sales. Others highlighted examples of how drugs for neglected diseases can be developed and manufactured without intellectual property incentives, and still others how drug licences can be efficiently pooled to facilitate widespread generic drug production. Another participant further illustrated the dysfunction of the current system, noting that much of the research and development of patented pharmaceuticals was publicly funded, and that there needs to be greater public accountability in drug pricing.</p>
<p><b>Medicines as Non-Patentable</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">One important perspective, expressed by participants across tracks, is simply that medicines should be non-patentable and accessible to all people, without restriction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><i>Intellectual Property Watch</i> will feature some of the key access to medicines initiatives highlighted at the Congress in greater depth and detail in the coming months.</p>
<p><b>Background of the Global Congress</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The First Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was held in 2011 at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC, and the specific policy goals of the Congress were summarized in the 2011 <a href="http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration-html">Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Congress was subsequently hosted in 2012 by Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade of FGV Direito, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013 by University of Cape Town IP Unit, in Cape Town, South Africa, and in 2015 by the Centre for Internet and Society, in New Delhi, India. Intellectual Property Watch has attended them all.</p>
<p>More background information on the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest can be found at <a href="http://infojustice.org/">infojustice.org</a>.</p>
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No publisherAdminIntellectual Property RightsCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2018-10-31T01:57:59ZNews Item5th Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest
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<b>Sunil Abraham, Anubha Sinha and Swaraj Paul Barooah attended the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest, in Washington DC, from September 24 - 29, 2018. The event was co-organized by PublicCitizen, Washington College of Law, American University, O'Neill Institute and the American Assembly, Columbia University.</b>
<p>CIS participated in several of the sessions spread over the 5 days:</p>
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<li>Anubha Sinha attended the pre-Congress trainings on Users' Rights, and Internet and Trade on September 24 and 25, 2018.</li>
<li>Sunil Abraham and Anubha Sinha attended a WIPO SCCR Strategy meeting organised by Knowledge Ecology International, DC.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Swaraj Paul Barooah made a presentation at the Microsoft Panel Event titled "Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence" held at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Centre. His co-panelists were Pam Samuelson (Berkeley Law), Niva Elkin-Koren (Uni of Haifa) and Pedro Mizukami (Founder of Centro, Brazil). The session was moderated by Mike Carroll and Christine Farley (both of American University).</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">Anubha Sinha and Sunil Abraham along with Jorge Contreras (University of Utah), spoke on the panel titled "Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in India" where they presented work on the PT project.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; ">CIS signed on as supporting members to the Civil Society Proposal for a Treaty on Education and Research Activities (TERA) which was formally finalized and made ready for organizational and individual endorsements. The treaty can be <a class="external-link" href="https://tinyurl.com/TERA-GCV">viewed here</a>.</li>
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<div>For more info on the sessions <a class="external-link" href="http://www.cvent.com/events/5th-global-congress-on-intellectual-property-and-the-public-interest/agenda-cf2ca0aa63414d4d9dd9dafed6a09a4c.aspx">click here</a></div>
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No publisherAdminIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2018-10-02T03:01:50ZNews Item4th IPR Researchers Confluence
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<b>Maggie Huang attended the event organized by Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai and National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai with support from Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi on March 27 and 28, 2015.</b>
<p>Maggie Huang presented intermediary findings of the research entitled "India’s Music Copyright Management in the Age of Music Streaming" positing streaming services as the 'frugal innovation' due to its low price tier. See Maggie's <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ipr-confluence-presentation" class="external-link">presentation here</a>. For more information on the event, <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/fourth-ip-research-confluence.pdf" class="internal-link">click here</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to Knowledge2015-04-04T06:15:08ZNews Item4th Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest: Statement of Conclusion for the IP and Development track
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<b>The 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was held from December 15 to 17, 2015 in New Delhi. This post provides a summary of the event.</b>
<p>This was also published on the <a class="external-link" href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/4th-global-congress-on-ip-and-the-public-interest-statement-of-conclusion-for-the-ip-and-development-track">Global Congress blog</a>.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wrap up note 1: Feedback on broad discussion in the IP and Dev track – set of collected key points:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This year, the discussions included attention to broad perspectives on clarifying the meaning and reality of open collaborative innovation, as well as significant focus on the sub-themes of economic development (innovation and software patents, clean technologies, climate change and green patenting, issues of branding and plain packaging); sustainable development (agriculture and geographic indicators [GI]); policy, law and regulation (role of governments, patenting, compulsory licensing [CL], global institutions [particularly WTO, WIPO and WHO] and national institutions [particularly patent offices]). Trade dominated the discussions across the IP and Dev track, including the TPP and other issues, reflecting the strong global trade agenda.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Missing areas in the track papers, workshops and panel discussions included the limited discussion on traditional knowledge (TK); the work of indigenous groups and how they are navigating the IP landscape; biodiversity; biotech and food security; innovation in the nanotechnology sphere; and inclusive development. Accessibility to innovations for low-income households, and accessibility to innovations at the country level needs greater attention. These topics can be brought out more strongly, more directly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The value of building research networks to create explicit knowledge and coherence in research-based evidence for advocacy and policy-making was made visible in the workshop session presented by Open AIR, with the Open AIR network as the exemplar. The challenge is to translate the kinds of research and evidence presented at the GC into content and value for policy-making and trade negotiations.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wrap up note 2: Value of the deliberations and future research:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This is a new track in the GC, introduced in 2015. It is an important track for this and future Global Congresses because it brings together the many strands of research, advocacy and other work that are related to topics in innovation, IP and development, but which are not specifically about openness, user rights or A2M. This is a very broad range of fields of study, from agriculture to nanotechnology. It was proposed that the track be renamed “Innovation and Development” to more explicitly describe its focus.<br /><br />From this GC, it has become clearer what future topics may be considered for papers and other inputs into the IP and Dev track. Such topics include counter-narratives to mainstream IP perspectives; bringing IP for development in multiple sectors to the fore – in education; in automotive manufacturing; in technology evolution; in agricultural production and food security; in the broad policy, law and regulatory environment pertinent to these and other sectoral perspectives. For example, in the paper on green patenting, reference was made to Tesla and Toyota releasing patents, but the session did not get to discuss that. The papers presented at the 4th GC suggest many areas of focus for future research and future GCs – perhaps the best way to think about this exploration is through greater attention to innovation in a range of social and economic sectors; to consider the particular challenges of innovation, IP and development in LDCs; to study innovation ecosystems and where IP fits in these ecosystem. Cross-track sessions are also considered to be very important because of the knowledge sharing that takes place across sectors, for example the discussions on patent wars in the access to medicines (A2M) track provided food for thought with respect to emerging issues in the software sector.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Wrap up note 3: Ideas and implications of GC sessions for future directions for research, collaborations and next GC:</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For the next GC, mobilization is required across various geographic regions and a significant discussion is required on preparation and design of the sub-themes, based on the notes above. The requirement for more evidence-based research was noted. It was recommended that the future name of the track should be Innovation and Development. The core group, comprised of track leaders and sessions chairs, should continue the leadership of the track from GC to GC, bringing additional interested persons on board, in particular with respect to the design of sub-themes well in advance of the 5th GC, to guide prospective submissions.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Ends.</p>
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No publishernehaaIntellectual Property RightsGlobal CongressCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2015-12-25T02:22:52ZBlog Entry4th Annual US - China IP Conference: Best Practices for Innovation and Creativity
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<b>Bhairav Acharya attended this conference organized by Berkeley Law, University of California on October 6, 2015. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>WHAT:</b> The 4th Annual U.S.-China IP Conference: Best Practices for Innovation and Creativity</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>WHEN:</b> Thurs. Oct. 8, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Fri. Oct. 9, 9:00 a.m.—noon</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>WHO:</b> Lawyers, government officials, scholars, and corporate counsel from China and U.S.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants include:</p>
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<li><b>Chuntian Liu</b>, dean of China Renmin University</li>
<li><b>Ping Liu</b>, dep. director-general, Music Copyright Society of China</li>
<li><b>Robert Merges</b>, co-dir. of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at Berkeley Law</li>
<li><b>Maria Strong</b>, deputy dir. of the U.S. Copyright Office</li>
<li><b>Duane Valz</b>, sr. patent counsel, Google</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For a full list of speakers and bios, go <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/bclt/upcoming-events/october-2015-us-china-ip-conference/speakers/">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>WHERE:</b> The Claremont Hotel, 41 Tunnel Road, Berkeley, CA 94705.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>DETAILS:</b> Last year marked the first in which Chinese investment in the United States—heavily weighted toward technology—exceeded U.S. investment in China. With companies in each country increasingly seeking joint ventures in the other, intellectual property (IP) issues that lie at the core of these investments have taken on even greater importance.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants will compare the latest trends and developments in IP creation, protection and cross-border enforcement in China and U.S.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Panel topics include:</p>
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<li>Opportunities and Challenges in U.S.-China Film Co-Production and Other Media</li>
<li>New Trends and Legal Issues in Transnational Technology Investment</li>
<li>Specialized IP Courts</li>
<li>Recent Developments in Copyright: Legislation and Cases</li>
<li>Recent Developments in Patents: Legislation and Cases</li>
<li>Cross-border IP Enforcement</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">For a complete agenda, go <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/bclt/upcoming-events/october-2015-us-china-ip-conference/agenda/">here</a>. Read a preview story about the conference <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/us-china-ip-conference-to-examine-best-practices-for-global-innovation/">here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Event co-sponsors: The UC Berkeley School of Law’s Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT); Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; and Renmin University of China Law School.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">For more information or to schedule interviews contact: Jim Dempsey, exec. dir. BCLT, 510-643-6960; or Louise Lee, assoc. dir., <a href="mailto:llee@law.berkeley.edu">llee@law.berkeley.edu</a>, 510-642-9353.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaIntellectual Property RightsAccess to Knowledge2015-11-29T13:51:15ZNews Item004: A License to Share
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<b>In this blogpost Devika Agarwal, a 4th year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, takes a first look at the Creative Commons 4.0 Licence.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the increasing amount of information being uploaded online every day, it becomes imperative to facilitate the sharing of this information legally. Creative Commons (CC) license is a tool developed especially with the objective of allowing widespread dissemination of information in a manner so as not to infringe the copyright of a person over the work.<br /><br />A CC license is a valid license. It is ‘non-exclusive’ in nature; this means that the author of a work is free to enter into a different licensing agreement with anybody he wishes despite holding a CC license (the different licensing contracts must also be ‘non-exclusive’ in nature). Simply put, licensees of a CC license will be governed by the terms of the CC license unless they have a different agreement with the license holder.</p>
<p>In India, works licensed under the CC license include <a href="http://www.nextbigwhat.com/india-launches-school-education-portal-under-creative-commons-license-297/">digital copies of educational material by NCERT.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">With the first version of the license being published in 2002, Creative Commons has witnessed a number of changes to help serve the needs of internet users better. Version 4.0 of the Creative Commons License was released on November 25, 2013.</p>
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<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">A more global license</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">What sets the latest version of the Creative Commons license apart from its precursors is the fact that CC license 4.0 is an ‘<i><b>international license’</b></i>. The earlier versions of CC license required the license to be <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Porting_Project">“ported” to the different jurisdictions</a>; ‘porting’ was a process which involved the translation and legal adaptation of CC’s core license suite (also known as ‘<i><b>generic’ license suite’</b></i><b> </b>) to conform to the languages and copyright laws of individual jurisdictions). This means that earlier one had to obtain a CC license ported to one’s country; the “ported version of the license” was a modification of the generic CC license, suited to meet the copyright requirements of a particular country.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CC license 4.0, on the other hand, is an international license, i.e., the 4.0 license is <b><i>‘jurisdiction neutral’</i></b> in nature and a single version of the license exists for all persons.</p>
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<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sui generis database rights</span>:</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The CC license 4.0 also provides explicitly for protection to <i>sui generis</i> databases in jurisdictions which recognize copyright related to <i>sui generis</i> databases. <i>Sui generis</i> databases were not expressly covered by the earlier versions of the CC license. (<a href="http://spicyip.com/2005/11/database-protection-in-india.html">India does not extend copyright protection to </a><a href="http://spicyip.com/2005/11/database-protection-in-india.html"><i>sui generis</i> databases</a>).</p>
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<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Non-attribution</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The one element common to all the CC licenses is ‘attribution’ or acknowledgement of the licensor as the author of the work by “giving appropriate credit and providing a link to the license. Where the earlier licenses provided that a licensor may request a licensee to remove attribution from adaptations of the work (in order to preserve anonymity), the 4.0 license extends the right of ‘non-attribution’ of a licensor to works which have not been adapted.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This right of attribution is recognized under section 57 (1) (a) of The Copyright Act, 1957 in India which states that <i>“even after the assignment either wholly or partially of the said copyright, the author of a work shall have the right to claim authorship of the work.”</i></p>
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<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">30-day period to remedy breach of CC license terms </span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A significant change in the CC 4.0 version is that unlike the earlier licenses which terminated the CC license in case of failure to comply with the license terms, the 4.0 licenses allow a 30-day period to the licensees to remedy the breach, after which the license shall resume.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The terms incorporated in the 4.0 license are aimed at making the license more compatible with the copyright laws of various jurisdictions and at the same time ensure that information can be shared with more freely, thus preserving the spirit of Access to Knowledge.</p>
<p>(Creative Commons <a href="http://spicyip.com/2013/11/creative-commons-india-relaunched.html">re-launched its India chapter</a> in November last year.)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Similarly, right of ‘non-attribution’ is recognized under section 21 of The Copyright Act, 1957 which provides for relinquishment of copyright by the author. This may be done <i>“by giving notice in the prescribed form to the Registrar of Copyrights or by way of public notice.” </i>A CC license where attribution has been removed at the instance of the licensor will serve as a ‘public notice’.</p>
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No publishernehaaCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2014-03-20T05:38:34ZBlog Entry3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy
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<b>Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, at IIT Bombay, through the MHRD IPR Chair, organized 3rd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy (MIPS) on July 15 and 16, 2016 at National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai. Anubha Sinha was a speaker on the 'Negotiating India's IP Policy" panel. </b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">MIPS is designed to be biennial in order to create and maintain the quality and its high relevance in the years to come. The broad theme for MIPS is "IP for Development: The emerging paradigm". With Make in India, Digital India missions that is driving both the hard and soft aspect of innovations, the focus this time would be "Driving Nation's Competitiveness - The IP Environment and Ecosystem."</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to Knowledge2016-08-02T15:30:19ZNews Item3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest & Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in Africa
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<b>From 9 to 13 December 2013, delegates from national and international governmental governmental entities, the private sector, civil society, and academia gathered for five days of interconnected events in Cape Town. </b>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sunil Abraham participated as a speaker in the sessions on Bridging into the Global Congress: Global Issues, Local Answers?, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.openair.org.za/content/user-rights">User Rights Track: What Medicines Can Teach Tech: Exploring Patent Pooling and Compulsory Licensing in the Indian Mobile Device Market</a>, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.openair.org.za/content/user-rights">User Rights Track: Reclaiming the World Trade Organisation: A Modest Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Global Public Goods</a>, and was a keynote speaker on <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blog/freedom-continuum.pdf" class="external-link">The Freedom Continuum</a>. Nehaa Chaudhari also participated in this event. Click to read more about the event published on the website of open A.I.R. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.openair.org.za/content/3rd-global-congress-ip-and-public-interest-open-air-conference-innovation-and-ip-africa">here</a>. The full programme can be seen <a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3rd-global-congress-ip-and-public-interest-open-air-conference-innovation-and-ip-africa.pdf" class="internal-link">here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Participants will engage with diverse perspectives and future scenarios for intellectual property (IP), innovation and development during the combined 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest and Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in Africa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><b>The event is now fully subscribed</b>, with only registrations invited by Congress & Conference organisers being accpted. For further details, please visit this website's <a href="http://www.openair.org.za/capetown2013">Cape Town 2013</a> page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The <a href="http://www.uct.ac.za/" target="_blank">University of Cape Town (UCT)</a> Faculty of Law's <a href="http://uctipunit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">IP Unit </a>is serving as host of the Congress & Conference. Implementating partners include the <a href="http://www.aucegypt.edu/Business/A2K4D/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Access to Knowledge for</a><a href="http://www.aucegypt.edu/Business/A2K4D/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank"> Development Center (A2K4D)</a> at The American University in Cairo, the <a href="http://nials-nigeria.org/" target="_blank">Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS)</a> at the University of Lagos, the<a href="http://cipitlawstrath.wordpress.com" target="_blank"> Centre for IP and IT Law (CIPIT) </a>at Srathmore University in Nairobi, the <a href="http://www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/index.php">Faculty of Law </a>at the University of Ottawa and the <a href="http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/" target="_blank">Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property <br /></a>at American University in Washington, DC.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Congress and Conference funding is being provided by Canada’s <a href="http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">International Development Research Centre (IDRC)</a>, Germany’s <a href="http://www.bmz.de/en/index.html" target="_blank">Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)</a> and the <a href="http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org" target="_blank">Open Society Foundations</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Date: Monday, 9 December, 2013 to Friday, 13 December, 2013<br />Place: Cape Town<br />Type of Event: Conference</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Sunil Abraham provided a hilarious talk on The Freedom Continuum. An example: “Freedom is like the Kama Sutra – there are many positions one can take.” Mr. Abraham also brilliantly suggested a method for plausible deniability in the world of biometric identification and oppressive government oversight. By posting all of my biometric information (fingerprints, eye scans, etc.) on the internet, I can plausibly deny any crimes or contracts or tracking by the government because, well, it’s all online so it couldn’t have been me, right? So we should (paradoxically) fight incursion into data privacy simply by releasing all biometric data about ourselves.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Also quite amusing was the comparison of the IP debate to Tom and Jerry, that iconic Cat (Kat?) and Mouse duo who are perpetually chasing one another. Tom the Cat represents Big Business, corporate interests, the USTR, etc. Tom is chasing (but can never quite catch) Jerry the Mouse, who represents civil society, human rights activists, the open source movement, etc. An audience member pointedly observed that Jerry typically runs around for a bit and then disappears into a hole in the wall, where he stays for some time before emerging to torture Tom again. The obvious point is that activists (i.e., the audience at the Global Congress) will never make substantial progress until they stop disappearing for long periods of time and start acting more like a cat (or even, perhaps, like a dog).</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/news/3rd-global-congress-ip-and-public-interest-open-air-conference-innovation-and-ip-africa'>https://cis-india.org/news/3rd-global-congress-ip-and-public-interest-open-air-conference-innovation-and-ip-africa</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to Knowledge2014-01-05T02:52:03ZNews Item3rd Expert Committee Meeting on reference of secretary, MHRD on representation of Internet and Mobile Association of India
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/3rd-expert-committee-meeting-on-reference-of-secretary-mhrd-on-representation-of-internet-and-mobile-association-of-india
<b>The 3rd Expert Committee meeting was held on January 11, 2016 in Committee Room No.654, 'A' Wing, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in New Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari and Anubha Sinha attended the meeting.</b>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3rd-expert-committee-meeting" class="internal-link">Download the notice</a>.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/3rd-expert-committee-meeting-on-reference-of-secretary-mhrd-on-representation-of-internet-and-mobile-association-of-india'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/3rd-expert-committee-meeting-on-reference-of-secretary-mhrd-on-representation-of-internet-and-mobile-association-of-india</a>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to Knowledge2016-02-05T14:04:24ZNews Item3 Copyright Tips for Students and Educators
https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3-copyright-tips-for-students-and-educators
<b>Copyright is a really complicated topic, and when it comes to online use of creative works, accidentally crossing the line between fair use and a copyright violation is easy. How do you know what is copyrighted? Recently Frederico Morando (Creative Commons, Italy) and I presented a training session on understanding copyright policies at Wikimania 2016, which was originally proposed by Wikipedian User:Jim Carter. We covered topics such as fundamentals of copyright, exclusive rights, Berne convention, copyleft, Creative Commons licenses, Public Domain, fair use, and copyfraud.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The blog post was <a class="external-link" href="https://opensource.com/education/16/8/3-copyright-tips-students-and-educators">published by Opensource.com</a> on August 16, 2016. This got mentioned in Wikipedia's newsletter "<a class="external-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single#In_brief">The Signpost</a>". This was mirrored by Wiki Edu on October 5, 2016. The post republished can be <a class="external-link" href="https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/10/05/blurry-copyright-three-tips-for-students-and-educators/">read here</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">In this article, I'll look at three copyright tips to keep in mind when you're thinking about using content—even for academic purposes— you find online.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">1. Most of what you find on the Internet is copyrighted.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Except content that clearly indicates the work is released under a free license, or that the copyright has lapsed and the work is in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain" target="_blank">Public Domain</a>, you can assume content is not freely/liberally licensed. A few popular free and <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical" target="_blank">open licenses</a> include GNU General Public License (GPL), BSD licenses, Apache License, Mozilla Public License, and SIL Open Font License. If a work mentions the license, usually the license is explained or links to terms for using the work. Spending a little time to find out what license the work is under beats spending time and money on a copyright infringement case later.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">2. Fair use can be your friend, but not always.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use" target="_blank">Fair use</a> means you might be permitted to make limited use of a copyrighted work without prior permission from the copyright holder. The fair use policy varies from country to country. As explained in the <a href="http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/" target="_blank">Stanford University Libraries site</a>, commentary/quotes and criticism, and parody are cases that often fall under fair use.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Wikipedia article images related to recent music albums, movies, and even people who are deceased are used under fair use policy. Click on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ghostbusters_2016_film_poster.jpg" target="_blank">a recent movie poster</a> appearing in a Wikipedia article and check the copyright section for an example explanation of why the use on Wikipedia qualifies as fair use.</p>
<p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: justify; "><img alt="Example Wikipedia explanation for fair use of an image." class="attr__field_folder[und]__9404 attr__field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]__panopoly_wysiwyg_text attr__field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]__ attr__field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]__Example image. an of use fair for explanation Wikipedia attr__field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]__Example attr__format__default img__view_mode__default img__fid__320866 attr__typeof__foaf:Image media-image" height="186" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/poster-license.png" title="Example Wikipedia explanation for fair use of an image." width="520" /></p>
<p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: justify; "><sup>Example <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ghostbusters_2016_film_poster.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia explanation</a> for fair use of an image.</sup></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Fair use also gives some freedom to scholars to use copyrighted work for academic research. To be in a safe side if you are not sure your use falls under "fair use," reach out to the copyright holder and get formal permission before using their work.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">3. search.creativecommons.org helps streamline Creative Commons content searches.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Where do you go to search for images, illustrations, and other content with Creative Commons licensing? Most images turned up using a search engine are copyrighted and not licensed liberally, for example. A better way to search is using <a href="http://search.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank">search.creativecommons.org</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: justify; "><img alt="Searching with search.creativecommons.org" class="attr__field_folder[und]__9404 attr__field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]__panopoly_wysiwyg_text attr__field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]__ attr__field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]__Searching search.creativecommons.org with attr__field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]__Searching attr__format__default img__view_mode__default img__fid__320871 attr__typeof__foaf:Image media-image" height="288" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/search_creative-commons.png" title="Searching with search.creativecommons.org" width="520" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">You can choose Creative Commons-licensed content from several sites, such as Flickr, Google Images, Wikimedia Commons, and Europeana. You can also specify whether you want to use the content for commercial purposes, or to modify, adapt, and build upon work.</p>
<p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: justify; "><img alt="Squirrel image cc by 2.0" class="attr__field_folder[und]__9404 attr__field_file_image_caption[und][0][format]__panopoly_wysiwyg_text attr__field_file_image_caption[und][0][value]__ attr__field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]__Squirrel 2.0 by cc image attr__field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]__Squirrel attr__format__default img__view_mode__default img__fid__320876 attr__typeof__foaf:Image media-image" height="345" src="https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/squirrel.png" title="Squirrel image cc by 2.0" width="520" /></p>
<p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: justify; "><sup>Image credit <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thartz00/4848125586/in/photolist-pJ1ZUb-pHZeyg-bHBqWK-qUPGF2-8p2py2-8omhkX-8ESRmV-8opUQb-8omCTF-8Ci9uT-8EW2Z1-aCzjww-8omsBg-egUVB6-8opD3b-pjwoda-egUUB4-5QjZw-afNR9W-8FCKKW-8ESJ1X-8opf3u-8omu6r-8opXVG-rksQLR-iiEtfF-8Fzkvi-kjQiui-6p3zqy-9vDtad-7ThZA-8oppdY-9cuAnT-8CmfVo-98RCtP-8EW259-8ESNoa-8EW1GW-8EVVLW-8ESMRa-8opfg7-8EVV73-8omdHk-8EVUMf-8ESS5x-8ESPaT-8ESSs8-9A3fb1-8omEcp-8EW1o1" target="_blank">likeaduck</a>. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0</a> </sup></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Note that you still will need to check which Creative Commons license the content uses. As explained in <a href="https://opensource.com/law/11/7/trouble-harmony-part-2">an article by Richard Fontana</a>:</p>
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<p>The Creative Commons suite includes licenses that implement various policies. Some, like CC BY and CC BY-SA, are normatively consistent with corresponding permissive and copyleft families of free software licenses. Others, however, particularly its “NC” (no commercial use) and “ND” (no derivative works) licenses, are in conflict with basic principles of free software and free culture. I am not alone in lamenting the application of the Creative Commons umbrella brand to cover licenses with such disparate qualities. One consequence has been a general confusing dilution of the meaning of “openness” in the context of cultural works. A more specific problem is the evidence of confusion on the part of content authors interested in applying Creative Commons licenses to their works, and resulting confusion by those interested in making use of such works. Too often a work is labeled as being licensed under “a Creative Commons license”, without specifying accurately, or specifying at all, which free or nonfree policy the author sought to apply.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">If you still cannot find content—images, for example—with free licenses, but you find copyrighted content that fits your academic need, you can reach out to the content creator or copyright holder for permission. Often copyright holders allow usage of their work for non-commercial purposes, such as academic research and publication.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Do you have other sources you recommend for finding Creative Commons or Public Domain content? Let us know about your favorite resources in the comments.</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3-copyright-tips-for-students-and-educators'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/3-copyright-tips-for-students-and-educators</a>
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No publishersubhaWikipediaCopyrightAccess to Knowledge2016-10-07T00:42:06ZBlog Entry2nd National Language Conference, Bhubaneswar
https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar
<b>Institute of Odia Studies and Research organised 2nd National Language Conference beginning on Monday, March 30, 2015 and ending on April 2, 2015 at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. This conference was organised in collaboration with the Department of Tourism and Culture. I presented a paper in Odia language in this conference as part of a panel discussion related to Odia language computing.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">I spoke briefly about the issues with Odia being used massively on the Internet and gaining popular with Odia speaking netizens. Odia Wikimedia community and CIS-A2K's efforts has resulted growth in online Odia content. I also shared the potential projects that people could get involved and how collective effort will yield more diversification of the language and its use by today's generation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The talk is available on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons Share-Alike 4.0 license.</p>
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<h2>Video <br /> <iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199183682&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="90%"></iframe></h2>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar'>https://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/second-national-language-conference-bhubaneswar</a>
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No publishersubhaVideoOpennessOdia WikipediaAccess to Knowledge2015-04-10T15:23:02ZBlog Entry2nd Law Economics Policy Conference 2017
https://cis-india.org/a2k/news/2nd-law-economics-policy-conference-2017
<b>The 2nd Law Economics Policy Conference is being organized by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi and Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York from December 4 to 6, 2017 at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.</b>
<h3>Steering Committee</h3>
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<li>Upma Chawdhry, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration</li>
<li>Rajeev Kapoor, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals</li>
<li>K. P. Krishnan, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Sunanda Nair Bidkar, Institute for New Economic Thinking</li>
<li>Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</li>
<li>Rathin Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</li>
<li>Ajay Shah, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</li>
<li>B. N. Srikrishna, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India</li>
<li>Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate</li>
<li>Shardul S. Shroff, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas</li>
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<h3>4 December 2017</h3>
<p>Juniper Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1 on Lodhi Road)</p>
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<td>19:30 - 22:30</td>
<td>Inauguration and Dinner</td>
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<td><i>Inaugural Address</i><br /> Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog<br /></td>
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<h3>5 December 2017</h3>
<p>Juniper Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1 on Lodhi Road)</p>
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<td>09:00 - 09:30</td>
<td><i>Registration and Breakfast</i><br /></td>
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<td>09:30 - 09:45</td>
<td><i>Opening remarks</i><br /></td>
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<td>09:45 - 11:05</td>
<td>Panel 1: Public Health</td>
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<td>Chairperson: C. K. Mishra, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change<br /></td>
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<td><i>Regulating the health profession</i><br /> Shefali Malhotra, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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<td><i>Air pollution</i><br /> Shubho Roy, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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<td><i>Health system design thinking</i><br /> Nachiket Mor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<br /></td>
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<td>Panelists</td>
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<td>B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Government of Chhattisgarh<br /> Yamini Aiyar, Centre for Policy Research<br /> Sanjay Arte, True North Managers</td>
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<td>11:05 - 11:25</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee</td>
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<td>11:25 - 12:45</td>
<td>Panel II: Bankruptcy</td>
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<td>Chairperson: Injeti Srinivas, Ministry of Corporate Affairs<br /></td>
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<td><i>The issues</i><br /> Bhargavi Zaveri, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research</td>
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<td>Panelists</td>
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<td>Shashank Saksena, Ministry of Finance<br /> Suharsh Sinha, AZB & Partners<br /> Sumant Prashant, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy<br /></td>
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<td>12:45 - 13:45</td>
<td>Lunch<br /></td>
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<td>13:45 - 14:45</td>
<td><i>Rule of law and regulation</i><br /> Justice (Retd.) B.N. Srikrishna, Supreme Court of India<br /> <br /></td>
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<td>14:45 - 16:05</td>
<td>Panel III: Importance of land market for ease of doing business</td>
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<td>Chairperson: Vijay Madan, Ex-Secretary, Department of Land Resources<br /></td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td><i>Stylised facts on Maharashtra RERA data</i><br /> Sahil Gandhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td><i>Creating an efficient market in land</i><br /> Anirudh Burman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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<td>Panelists</td>
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<td>Venkatesh Panchapagesan, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore<br /> Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute<br /> S. Chockalingam, Government of Maharashtra<br /></td>
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<td>16:05 - 16:25</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee</td>
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<td>16:25 - 17:45</td>
<td>Panel IV: Technology Policy</td>
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<td>Chairperson: Rajeev Kapoor, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals<br /></td>
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<td><i>Current debates in technology policy</i><br /> Smriti Parsheera, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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<td>Panelists</td>
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<td>Arunabh Choudhary, Juris Corp<br /> Parag Kar, Vice President, Qualcomm<br /> Sunil Bajpai, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India<br /> Sunil Abraham, The Centre for Internet and Society<br /> S. Ganesh Kumar, Reserve Bank of India<br /></td>
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</tbody>
</table>
<h3>6 December 2017</h3>
<p>Juniper Hall (Entry from Gate No. 1 on Lodhi Road)</p>
<table>
<tbody>
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<td>09:30 - 10:00</td>
<td><i>Registration and Breakfast</i><br /></td>
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<td>10:00 - 11:30</td>
<td>Panel V: Courts and Tribunals</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>Chairperson: Shardul S. Shroff, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas<br /></td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td><i>The issues</i><br /> Prasanth Regy, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td><i>Judicial delay: Informalism as panacea?</i><br /> Anuj Bhuwania, South Asian University</td>
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<td>Panelists</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>Anand Prasad, Advocate<br /> Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate<br /> Ritin Rai, Advocate<br /> Sanjay Kumar Medhi, Additional Advocate General, Assam<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:30 - 11:50</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:50 - 13:20</td>
<td>Panel VI: Macroeconomic and financial institution building</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>Chairperson: Vijay Kelkar, NIPFP<br /></td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td><i>A progress report</i><br /> Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
</tr>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>Panelists</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>U. K. Sinha, Ex-Chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India<br /> Harsh Vardhan, Bain & Company<br /> Amit Raje, Goldman Sachs<br /></td>
</tr>
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<td>13:20 - 14:20</td>
<td>Lunch<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14:20 - 15:50</td>
<td>Panel VII: Criminal Justice</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>Chairperson: Prakash Singh, Police Foundation and Institute<br /></td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td><i>The issues</i><br /> Renuka Sane, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>Panelists</td>
</tr>
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<td><br /></td>
<td>P.C. Haldar, Police Foundation and Institute<br /> B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, Government of Chhattisgarh<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15:50 - 16:10</td>
<td>Tea/Coffee</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16:10 - 17:40</td>
<td>Panel VIII: High performance regulators</td>
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<tr>
<td><br /></td>
<td><i>The issues</i><br /> Ajay Shah, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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<td><i>A regulator for private skills providers</i><br /> K.P. Krishnan, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship</td>
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<td>Praveen Garg, Ministry of Finance<br /> Somasekhar Sundaresan, Advocate<br /> Suyash Rai, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy<br /></td>
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<td><i>Summing up</i><br /> Sunanda Nair Bidkar, Institute for New Economic Thinking<br /> Ila Patnaik, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy</td>
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No publisherAdminAccess to Knowledge2017-12-05T14:08:47ZNews Item2nd International Conference on Managing Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy (MIPS 2014)
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<b>Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay through the support of the Ministry of Human Resources Development IPR Chair Project, Government of India, is hosting the 2nd International Conference on Management of Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy MIPS 2014 at IIT Bombay, India.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The core focus of this conference is to provide a suitable and conducive platform to discuss, debate and present contemporary research in the area of Intellectual Property Rights and its management.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/mips-2014.pdf" class="internal-link">Click to download the event brochure</a> (PDF, 124 Kb)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Nehaa Chaudhari was a panelist at the session on "An Unexamined Premise: The Relevance of a Twenty-year Patent Term for Various Sectors". She gave a talk on the re-examining the 20 year patent term for software. The full details of the event can be <a class="external-link" href="http://www.som.iitb.ac.in/MIPS2014/">accessed here</a>.</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaAccess to Knowledge2014-03-12T13:23:33ZNews Item(Lack of) Representation of Non-Western World in Process of Creation of Web Standards
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<b>World Wide Consortium (W3C) as a standard setting organization for the World Wide Web plays a very important role in shaping the web. We focus on the ongoing controversy related to Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and found that there was a serious lack of participation from people from non-western countries. We also found serious lack of gender diversity in the EME debate.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">W3C is the organization which sets the standard for HTML 5. Recently it got surrounded by controversy due to the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) draft specification (David Dorwin et al. 2016). EME aims to prevent piracy of digital video by making it hard to download the unencrypted video stream. But it also raises lots of issues regarding implementation in Free and Open Source Software, Interoperability, Privacy, Security, Accessibility and fair use. (Cory Doctorow 2016)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">In this study we looked at aspects of the debate which both of the sides ignored, the third world! We found that out of 48 people who participated in the debate around EME on W3C's public-html mailing list, none of them were from the continents of Asia, Africa or South America. These regions make up almost 80 % of the world's population and more than 60 percent of world's internet users (Stats 2016). When a group of people doesn't get represented a in the standard making process it is expected that their concerns don't get represented either. The representation of people is specially important in the EME debate because laws around Digital Rights Management around the world are different. For example Indian laws does not disallow manufacture and distribution of circumvention tools whereas the law in USA does (Prakash 2016b). The cultural norms around the world are quite different and also the conditions under which people use the internet are different. India has the lowest average internet speed across the world (Akamai 2016). A large of fraction of Indian population (37% in 2010) accesses internet through Cyber Cafés (TRAI 2016). These factors makes the ability to download digital content much more important for an Indian internet user than a North American or European internet user.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Methodology</h2>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We used BigBang<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> python package to download the achieves of the public-html mailing list at W3C.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a> Our dump contains all the messages between 31st August 2010 to 15th May 2016. Then we filtered out all the emails with EME, encrypted media or DRM in the subject line. There were 472 such emails. We then de-duplicated the list of senders as some senders used multiple emails in the course of discussion. There were 48 unique senders afters de duplication. Then we looked up their social media profiles (LinkedIn, Twitter, Github), personal website or page at employers site to determine the region they belong to and their gender. All the source code used for the analysis is available on our github repository.<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3">[3]</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">Result</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Regional Diversity</h3>
<table class="grid listing" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Region</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>Participant (%)</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>Email (%)</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Africa</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0 (0)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0 (0)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Asia</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0 (0)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0 (0)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Australia and New Zealand</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>5 (10.4)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>16 (3.4)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Europe</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>13 (27.1)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>146 (30.9)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>North America</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>30 (62.5)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>310 (65.7)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>South America</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0 (0)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0 (0)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Total</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>48 (100)</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>472 (100)</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">As mentioned in the Introduction above there was absolutely no participation from the whole continents of Africa, Asia, or South America with most of the emails being sent by North Americans.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Gender Diversity</h3>
<table class="grid listing" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Gender</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>Participant(%)</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>Email(%)</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Male</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>47 (97.9)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>466 (98.7)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p>Female</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>1 (2.1)</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>6 (1.3)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Total</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>48 (100)</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>472 (100)</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">There was only one women participating in the discussing contributing 1.3 % of the emails sent. The numbers reflects widely discussed lack of gender diversity in Tech and Open communities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The debate inside W3C around EME also seriously lacked in gender diversity, which is typical of open communities.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Stakeholder Community</h3>
<table class="grid listing" style="text-align: justify; ">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Stakeholder Community</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>Participants per work category</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>Emails sent per stakeholder category</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>FOSS browser developer</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>5</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>56</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Digital Content Provider</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>9</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>186</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>DRM Platform Provider</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>15</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>100</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Accessibility</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>4</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>47</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Security Researcher</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>0</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Privacy</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>2</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>2</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Other W3C Employee</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>3</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>10</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>None of the Above</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p>10</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>71</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p><b>Total</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>48</b></p>
</td>
<td>
<p><b>472</b></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We observe that there was no participation from the Security Researcher community and negligible participation from privacy community. Voice of Digital Content Provider was overrepresented with almost 40% of emails sent by them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Methodological remarks:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; ">
<li>Participants are categorized on the basis stakes of their employer and not specifically on the work they do. For example someone who works on privacy in Google will be placed in "DRM platform provider" instead of "Privacy".</li>
<li>W3C and Universities are considered to neutral and their employees are categorized by the work they do.</li>
<li>Google's position is very interesting, it is a DRM provider as a browser manufacturer but also a content provider in Youtube and fair number of Google Employers are against EME due to other concerns. Therefore Christian Kaiser has been paced as Content provider because he works on Youtube, and everyone else has been placed as DRM provider.</li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Discussion and Future Work</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The lack of diversity in W3C is not unique. (Graham, Straumann, and Hogan 2015) showed a significant western bias in Wikipedia, gender bias in Wikipedia has also a well known and is being actively worked upon. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has also been criticized for under representing interests of non North American and West European world (Prakash 2016a).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">We hope that W3C and other organizations will increase the diversity in their standard making process so that global voices actually shape the global internet.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify; ">Acknowledgement</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">This work was done during my internship at The Center for Internet & Society, India. I thank Sunil Abraham for useful and timely feedback and Pranesh Prakash, Amber Sinha and Udbhav Tiwari for informed discussions.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">References</h2>
<ul>
<li>Akamai. 2016. “Akamai State of the Internet Q1 2016.” Accessed August 20. <a href="https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report-q1-2016.pdf"><b>https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report-q1-2016.pdf</b></a>.</li>
<li>Cory Doctorow. 2016. “Interoperability and the W3C: Defending the Future from the Present.” <i>Electronic Frontier Foundation</i>. <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/interoperability-and-w3c-defending-future-present"><b>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/interoperability-and-w3c-defending-future-present</b></a>.</li>
<li>David Dorwin, Jerry Smith, Mark Watson, and Adrian Bateman. 2016. “Encrypted Media Extensions, W3C Editor’s Draft.” Accessed May 13. <a href="https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/"><b>https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/</b></a></li>
<li>Feminism, Geek. 2016. “Geek Feminism Wiki FLOSS.” <i>Geek Feminism Wiki</i>. Accessed October 5. <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/FLOSS">http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/FLOSS</a>.</li>
<li>Graham, Mark, Ralph K. Straumann, and Bernie Hogan. 2015. “Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia.” <i>Annals of the Association of American Geographers</i> 105 (6): 1158–78. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1072791"><b>10.1080/00045608.2015.1072791</b></a>.</li>
<li>Prakash, Pranesh. 2016a. “CIS Statement at ICANN 49’s Public Forum.” <i>The Centre for Internet and Society</i>. Accessed August 20. <a href="http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/icann49-public-forum-statement"><b>http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/icann49-public-forum-statement</b></a>.</li>
<li>Prakash, Pranesh. 2016b. “Technological Protection Measures in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010.” <i>The Centre for Internet and Society</i>. Accessed August 20. <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tpm-copyright-amendment"><b>http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/tpm-copyright-amendment</b></a>.</li>
<li>Stats, Internet Live. 2016. “Number of Internet Users (2016) - Internet Live Stats.” Accessed August 20. <a href="http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/"><b>http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/</b></a>.</li>
<li>TRAI.. “Recommendations on National Broadband Plan.” Accessed August 20. <a href="http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/Recommendation/Documents/Rcommendation81210.pdf"><b>http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/Recommendation/Documents/Rcommendation81210.pdf</b></a>.</li>
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</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a><sup> </sup> https://github.com/datactive/bigbang</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2"><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></a><sup> </sup> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; "><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3"><sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup></a><sup> </sup> https://github.com/hargup/eme_diversity_analysis</p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/lack-of-representation-of-non-western-world-in-creation-of-web-standards'>https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/lack-of-representation-of-non-western-world-in-creation-of-web-standards</a>
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