[Fsf-friends] [Commons-Law] IPL Workshop Schedule (fwd)

[Frederick Noronha]

>From the Commons-Law mailing list in Delhi. Perhaps the term
'intellectual property' should have been treated with inverted-quotes or 
more skepticism throughout... FN

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THE DAILY LIFE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
(20 - 21st December, 2002)
A workshop organised by Sarai/ CSDS, Delhi and ALF, Bangalore
Venue : Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054
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Day One : 20th Friday, 2002

10 AM : Session 1

Introduction - Jeebesh Bagchi, Sarai/CSDS

Ravi Sundaram, Sarai/CSDS,
Introduction to the Public and Practices  in the History of the Present
(PPHP) research work within the grey economy.

Prof. NS Gopalkrishnan, CUSAT,
Criminalization of intellectual property law

Discussion

11.30 AM : Tea

11.45 AM : Sessions 2

Lawrence Liang, ALF
Emergence of IPR in daily life and language

Discussant - Shamnad Basheer, Oxford

1.30 PM Lunch

2.15 PM

Discussion Session

Presentations -
Anup and Naditha - MHRD, Govt. of India report on copyright piracy in  India 
Neha Mahyavanshi - The vendors manual on IPR
Sudhir and Lawrence - IPR cases and materials CD

Comments and discussion

4.30 PM - The Code - a film by Hannu Puttonen on free software movement

6.00 PM - A terrible beauty is born - a reading/ performance by Arjun Raina
(@ Sarai Interface Zone)

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Day Two - 21st Saturday, 2002

10 AM : Session1

A summary of day one - Sudhir Krishnaswamy

Ravi Vasudevan, Sarai/CSDS
IPL and rethinking of cultural studies

Sudhir Krishnaswamy, ALF,
The constitutional dimensions of the public domain

Tea break - 12

12.15 PM : Session 2

Arun Mehta, Moderator, India GII list
Software Patents: An illustration of the absurdity of IPR in the Information  
Age

Tripta Chandola, Sarai,
Open Source Licensing - some comments

Lunch - 1.30 PM

2.15 PM : Session 3

Jeebesh Bagchi, Sarai
>From `free software` to OPUS (www.opuscommons.net)

Nitin Sawhney, MIT-Media Lab
ThinkCycle: Cooperative Innovation in the Commons

Discussion Session:

OpenRegistry by Sunil Abraham, Mahiti
The challenges of formulating a license: ThinkCycle

Closing remarks by Sarai and ALF

4.30 PM - Tea

4.45 PM - A short planning session with student stipends

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