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The Proposed Accessibility Exception to Copyright (0)

3/06/10 •

By Bihu Sharma and Nandita Saikia
(This is a Working Paper and is based on the proposed Copyright Amendment.)
Introduction
The disabled in India are, for the most part, an invisible minority with disability, and often the disabled themselves, being stigmatised. In a country where access to information and education is limited by a variety of factors, including [...]

Films and the Copyright Amendment (0)

2/21/10 •

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In 2006, the Copyright Office first put up a draft of proposed amendments to the Copyright Act on its website. Since then, the proposed amendments appear to have been revised (if media reports are anything to go by). On December 24, 2009, the PIB released information about the proposed copyright amendments. Although the [...]

Hyperlinks and Copyright Infringement (0)

2/01/10 •

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A hyperlink usually links one document (an anchor) on the Internet to another document (the target). Usually referred to as a links, hyperlinks may be one directional, bi-directional or may be used in more complex patterns.
There are several types of hyperlinks, with the common ones being:

Surface links which link to the homepage of [...]

Audio-Visual Recordings and the Broadcast Reproduction Right (0)

1/04/10 •

(By Nandita Saikia
(Download the complete article: Time-Shifting Audio-Visual Recordings and the Broadcast Reproduction Right)
There are times when the use of ‘and/or’ can be annoying. In a blog post, speaking of contracts, Ken Adams suggests that you ‘steer clear of ‘and/or’ unless using it would spare you some verbiage’. The ‘and/or’ alternative certainly is more compact [...]