http://www.icommons.org/index.php?autor=378 2010-9-02T10:04:39Z http://www.icommons.org/images/i_commons_01.gif http://www.icommons.org/index.php?autor=378 Modern copyright law developed in India gradually, in what we may identify roughly as three distinct phases spanning more than 150 years (1). This article attempts to briefly navigate through the major changes brought in by each successive wave of copyright amendment which have cumulatively resulted in the way Indian Copyright law stands today.(2) <br /> <br /> Phase I: East India Company... http://www.icommons.org/articles/a-very-brief-history-of-copyright-development-in-india 2008-11-05T19:36:34Z In the media, mentions of copyright law are invariably coupled with shrill narrations about piracy. Two images are typically conjured in these narratives: Firstly, that of a prosperous national industry going to seed only because of piracy. For instance, the following passage from a thoroughly enjoyable account of piracy in Mumbai:<br /> <br /> “Such printing presses in New Delhi, Mumbai,... http://www.icommons.org/articles/tall-tales-about-copyright-law 2008-6-25T23:18:27Z <br /> “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.” <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -Marcel Duchamp,... http://www.icommons.org/articles/why-you-must-be-legally-licensed-to-host-fun-on-the-internet 2008-4-21T14:46:45Z Medicinal discovery,<br /> It moves in mighty leaps,<br /> It leapt straight past the common cold<br /> And give it us for keeps.<br /> ~Pam Ayres<br /> <br /> Towards the close of his recent documentary ‘Sicko’ (2007), Michael Moore smuggles five 9/11 rescue workers over to Cuba on a boat to see if he can get them the medical aid they need, but cannot afford in the U.S. In one stirring scene, a single-mother... http://www.icommons.org/articles/no-remedy-for-a-thousand-prescriptions 2008-2-23T00:27:29Z “My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about&#059; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.”<br /> George Bernard Shaw<br /> <br /> “If textbooks are treated as a vehicle for education, the living world of the teacher has very little value. A teacher who teaches from textbooks... http://www.icommons.org/articles/a-few-old-lessons-and-some-new-ones-for-open-education-in-india 2007-11-16T03:14:46Z What is the public domain? What is private? And do these questions have any bearing on the growing information commons that we on this site are trying, in our own various ways to promote?<br /> <br /> Consistent with the style of my previous articles, I would like to embark on a heuristic examination of these questions – by supplying illustrations of the manner in which “public” has been... http://www.icommons.org/articles/what-is-public 2007-10-12T23:32:00Z "Much had been done by the Potter publishers, just short of calling in the navy and air force, with the unprecedented levels of protective fuss including setting up a 24-hour anti-piracy hotline , armed guards, all-night vigils, and armored convoys worldwide shipping the book from airports to stores." Asia Times Online<br /> <br /> Last week, the multi-ethnic city of Hyderabad in south India... http://www.icommons.org/articles/ipyrate-1 2007-9-13T19:28:34Z India has a rich heritage of composite culture. We are summarily recited this by Article 51A(f) of our Constitution which makes it every citizen's fundamental duty to "value and preserve" said composite culture. And so when Indians speak of culture, we have little choice it would seem, other than being tamely co-opted into the language of individual riches and inheritance&#059;... http://www.icommons.org/articles/cultural-heritage-and-the-commons-some-vignettes 2007-8-14T18:41:06Z India has a rich heritage of composite culture. We are summarily recited this by Article 51A(f) of our Constitution which makes it every citizen's fundamental duty to "value and preserve" said composite culture. And so when Indians speak of culture, we have little choice it would seem, other than being tamely co-opted into the language of individual riches and inheritance&#059;... http://www.icommons.org/blogs/cultural-heritage-and-the-commons-some-vignettes-from-india 2007-8-06T13:51:46Z txtBusca http://www.icommons.org/home/busca.php Search in iCommons.org