<p>By YOGESH PAI Since October 2020, India and South Africa, joined by two-thirds of the WTO Members (African Group, LDCs and most of the developing world) have been actively pursuing other developed country Members to agree to their request to waive global intellectual property (IP) rules. The waiver asserts that by suspending IP protection for &hellip; <a href="https://ciipc.wordpress.com/2021/04/29/wto-ip-waiver-too-simplistic-global-vaccine-tech-transfer-needs-other-strat

A recent civil suit at the Delhi High Court by publishers (Elsevier, Wiley and American Chemical Society) to permanently block popular shadow libraries (i.e. pirate websites) like Sci-Hub and Libgen has drawn an expected backlash from civil society groups, copyright scholars and popular commentators. While some scholars and commentators have called the business of academic publishing ‘greedy’, others note that shutting down such pirated websites is ‘anti-science’ and against

<p>University of Pennsylvania Law School and IDIA organised a conference titled ‘A 3-D Perspective on Indian Intellectual Property: Distinct, Diverse and Democratic?’at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi on 5th March 2019. Dr. Arul George Scaria, Co-director, CIIPC, was part of the panel discussion on copyright law in India  and this panel was chaired by &hellip; <a href="https://ciipc.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/panel-discussion-at-upenn-and-idia-conference-at-indian-law-insti

<p>By Arul George Scaria and Rishika Rangarajan [(2016) 8 WIPO Journal 109] Abstract Open science is a global movement attempting to reclaim certain core values of science. One such value is openness. Given the important role of science in political, economic, social and technological development, it is important to identify the legal and policy reforms &hellip; <a href="https://ciipc.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/fine-tuning-the-intellectual-property-approaches-to-fostering-open-

<p>Link to the working paper &#8211; <a href="https://osf.io/q3bxv/" rel="nofollow">https://osf.io/q3bxv/</a></p>

<p>COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT TELANGANA STATE OPEN DATA POLICY 2016 Arul George Scaria and Rishika Rangarajan &nbsp; The Telangana State Open Data Policy 2016 is a positive step towards better governance through more open data. We would like to share herewith some of our comments and suggestions to make the policy more holistic and more &hellip; <a href="https://ciipc.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/comments-on-telangana-open-data-poliy-2016/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span cla