-The Hindu ‘It didn’t go well with India’s IPR poLICy’ New Delhi: The former Deputy Chairman of the erstwhile Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia criticised an Agriculture Ministry order earlier this year to cap the royalty and sale price of cotton seed. The Ministry, in March, used its powers under the Essential Commodities Act — a legislation that allows the government to determine the price of commodities including seed — to declare that...
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Foreign fund ban on Jaisingh's NGO for 6 months -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday barred former additional soLICitor general (ASG) Indira Jaising's NGO Lawyers Collective from receiving foreign funds for 180 days with immediate effect and asked why its LICence under the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010, should not be cancelled over misuse and diversion of foreign contributions, including for payment of Rs 96.60 lakh as remuneration to Jaising while she was ASG. Lawyers Collective was...
More »Open Educational Resources is the Best Way for India to Have Inclusive Education -Madhu KS and Gagan Krishnadas
-TheWire.in The right to information and to education give the government the mandate to make poLICies that guarantee the delivery of educational resources to all. But the Copyright Act needs to be amended to strengthen fair use exceptions for educational purposes. Last August, the University of Maryland University College made an announcement that it had replaced its undergraduate textbooks with open educational resources (OER), thereby becoming the first university in the world...
More »Patently a missed opportunity -Achal Prabhala and Sudhir Krishnaswamy
-The Hindu India’s first IPR poLICy trots out the worn western fairy tale that more IP means innovation, and encourages the pointless privatisation of indigenous knowledge India’s National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) PoLICy, released in mid-May, is a bewildering document. There are two ways to read this poLICy. The first is as a gigantic exercise in dissimulation, with a terse declaration — India is not changing its IPR laws — tucked inside...
More »‘No profiteering at the cost of farmer’ -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu Land should be given back if the project does not take off: SC New Delhi: Even as several prominent private builders have come under suspicion for delayed completion of housing projects, the Supreme Court has declared land a “scarce natural resource” and forbidden the government from using its powers of compulsory land acquisition to strip poor farmers of their livelihood only to transfer such land to private builders to feed...
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