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Via: Sunil Abraham

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Subject:
Is Bayh Dole Good for Developing
Countries? Lessons from the US
Experience
Date:
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:40:58 -0400
From:
Anthony So
To:
anthonys@duke.edu





Dear Colleagues,
We wanted to let you know of today's publication of a jointly authored
article in /PLoS Biology/, "Is Bayh Dole Good for Developing Countries?
Lessons from the US Experience." We anticipate that this may stir
controversy in some quarters, but hope this article will serve as a
useful, constructive contribution to these policy debates, particularly
as they are unfolding in places like India. Under separate cover, we
have sent a copy of this article to various colleagues in Indian civil
society as they face the imminent introduction of a Bayh-Dole style bill
into the Parliament there.

PLoS Biology also makes the manuscript freely available on-line under a
Creative Commons Attribution License at:
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060262


The blog on this site may carry responses to the article, and we hope
that you all will weigh in as well there and elsewhere.

We have also prepared a wiki targeted for the use of developing country
civil society groups. The wiki posts resources and references that might
be useful in researching the US Bayh-Dole Act and related issues. It is
meant to be an *invitation-only site* that primarily serves as a place
for developing country civil society groups to share in this
information, with inputs also added from a few select Northern NGOs and
university academics. It also would evolve over time with your
contributions, corrections and revisions as well as those from the
community. As we or others develop fact sheets, legislative analyses or
other materials, they also might be posted here. One can also create new
pages where the on-line community might critique presentations, fact
sheets, or certain lines of argumentation. Collectively, we might also
track there news clippings or blogs where this debate is unfolding.

If you might be interested in contributing, please let us know of your
interest, what hat you're wearing, and what contribution you might wish
to make, and we can send an invitation (perhaps one or two point persons
or representatives per Northern NGO). Requests should be sent to Corrina
Moucheraud Vickery (cm108@duke.edu). If there are a lot of your members
that might wish to participate in the wiki, we can also work to help
create a parallel one for your group.

We hope that this article will make a timely contribution to the
discussions now taking place.

Best regards,
Anthony

Via: "prathibha siva"

Via: mdnair

Via: "Patrice Riemens"

from the mind-boggling blog http://b1ff.org
(cancell a few of yr usual blogs and take up this one... ;-)

http://b1ff.org/2008/10/13/578/news-flash-yes-you-do-defend-piracy/
(long for: http://tinyurl.com/3so43n)

refer to the above for all links... (+ 1 pic of 'the other Lawrence'...;-)
Enjoy & Cheers from patrizio & 2 Diiiinooos!

Via: "Pranesh Prakash"

Dear All,
Does anyone have links to translated judgments? It would be
interesting to see how exactly the court(s) rejected transformative
use. Does anyone know more about that area of German copyright law?

Cheers,
Pranesh

From http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/152218/google_will_appeal_german_copyright_decisions.html

Google Will Appeal German Copyright Decisions

Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:40 AM PDT

Google will appeal two German court decisions that found it violated
copyright law by showing thumbnails of works by two artists in search
results, the company said Tuesday.

Google has fought this battle before in other countries, sparring in
court over the fine line between limited, legal use of copyrighted
material and violating intellectual property laws.

The case, which involved Google's Image Search feature in its search
engine, concerned a photograph and artwork from two artists. Google
will file a single appeal covering both cases to Germany's Supreme
Court, according to a company spokesman.

"We believe that services like Google Image Search are entirely legal
and provide great value and critical information to Internet users,"
the company said in an e-mail. "Today's decision is very bad for
Internet users in Germany."

Google argued in its statement that the ruling is bad for Web sites
that generate traffic from people using its Image Search as well as
other services.

Google has had mixed results in copyright clashes. Google lost a
challenge by Belgium publishing group Copiepresse over the indexing of
news stories on Google News.

In the U.S., Google was sued by Perfect 10, a nude model photo
publisher, over thumbnails of material owned by the publisher that
were returned in search results.

But a U.S. appeals court ruled in May 2007 use of the material
qualified as fair use, the principle that a limited portion of
copyright material can be legally used without permission.

The court said full-size images weren't stored by Google and that the
search engine merely directs a person's Web browser to third-party
sites.

Via: "Lawrence Liang"

Via: "Pranesh Prakash"

Dear All,
This is to remind everyone that tomorrow is Open Access Day, and that
the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia (New
Delhi) and the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore) are jointly
organizing a meeting at JMI to celebrate the occasion.

Details at:
http://cis-india.org/advocacy/open-access/open-access-day/agenda

A map for those attending:
http://cis-india.org/advocacy/open-access/open-access-day/map.jpg

Regards,
Pranesh

Via: "Pranesh Prakash"

Via: "Prashant Iyengar"

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Music_lands_gym_owner_in_trouble/rssarticleshow/3578559.cms

MOHALI: A local gym owner and instructor were arrested on Thursday
after they allegedly manhandled a licensing inspector of the Indian
Performing Rights Society (IPRS) when he asked them to produce license
for playing music
in the gymnasium on Wednesday.

Licensing inspector with IPRS, Arvind Sharma, alleged that while he
was on a routine check, he found a Phase VII gym playing music, but
when he asked gym owner HR Sharma and instructor Yash Shani for the
license, he was manhandled. He then got a complaint registered with
the police.

On Thursday, a police party raided the gym and arrested the duo on
charges of manhandling. "We have arrested the duo for manhandling. We
will first verify the facts of the license required to play music and
only after that any further action could be taken," said Mataur police
station SHO Tarlochan Singh.

According to Sharma, under Section 33, sub section 3, of the Copyright
Act, it is mandatory for every one to get a license for playing music
in commercial establishments. He said earlier too notices were issued
to the gym owner to apply for one.

Via: Jeebesh