[Wikimediaindia-l] Act Now to Protect the Public Domain

2011-09-01 Thread Pranesh Prakash
d any way. Regards, Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediain

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Act Now to Protect the Public Domain

2011-09-02 Thread Pranesh Prakash
>> hi, >> >> Today (Sept 2, for those who read this later) was a Friday. Was the >> bill discussed in the Rajya Sabha today? >> >> If so, any updates on what happened? >> >> Thanks, >> Pradeep >> Sent from my Nokia E63 >> >> On 0

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Act Now to Protect the Public Domain

2011-09-02 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Sep 2, 2011 3:41 PM, "Pranesh Prakash" wrote: > The Berne Convention and the TRIPS Agreement (which incorporates the Berne > Convention), which is the most-ratified international instrument on > copyright, pegs the term at 25 years for photographs. > > One should

[Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
egards, Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
, then we all need > to try to get this particular amendment targetted and struck off when > the amendment gets presented before Parliament in the Monsoon session. > > Regards, > Pranesh > > > > > _______ > Wikimediaindia-l m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs

2011-06-19 Thread Pranesh Prakash
une 2011 23:23, Gautam John wrote: >>> >>> Pranesh: >>> >>> Do you have a form letter we could use, please? >>> >>> Something that we could each sign, individually, and send? To whom? By >>> when? >>> >>> Thank yo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers

2011-06-25 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Bishakha Datta wrote: >Very interesting; lists missing wikipedias in Indic languages too. > >Best >Bishakha > >-- Forwarded message -- >From: Milos Rancic >Date: Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:22 AM >Subject: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers >To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] National Museum, New Delhi

2011-06-29 Thread Pranesh Prakash
ot;skill and judgment" as the test for originality or "modicum of creativity", it is very clear that it squarely rejects the older "sweat of the brow" test. -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org |

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] National Museum, New Delhi

2011-06-29 Thread Pranesh Prakash
of copyright (presumed to be under copyright, rather than presumed to be under public domain) is one of the greatest problems with the current global copyright regime. - Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] National Museum, New Delhi

2011-06-29 Thread Pranesh Prakash
(and hence, copyrighted as per our law). -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediain

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Blasts | Ajmal Kasab's birthday | Wikipedia

2011-07-13 Thread Pranesh Prakash
> Keep a watch on related articles even in non-English language Wikipedias > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > > > > > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Potential lobbying by CIS on their own FDC proposal

2014-05-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
> > The very unique user ID Solipsist is seen to be coinciding with his gmail > address used at > > http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/commons-law_mail.sarai.net/2007-February.txt > > He is also suggesting in Twitter that WMIN funding be stopped. > > https://twitter.com/pran

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Potential lobbying by CIS on their own FDC proposal

2014-05-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Regards, Pranesh ravidreams at gmail.com (Ravishankar) [2014-05-17 16:20:58 +0530]: > Hi Vishnu, > > Could you please clarify if the following user account > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/The-solipsist > > belongs to a CIS employee named Pranesh Pra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Potential lobbying by CIS on their own FDC proposal

2014-05-23 Thread Pranesh Prakash
lYeahYes! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chaukalagaya Two hurrahs for neutrality! Lastly, I agree strongly with Ravi: Let us focus on real issues. In that spirit, I am no longer going to continue contributing to this thread, which only detracts from the signal-to-noise ratio.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Potential lobbying by CIS on their own FDC proposal

2014-05-23 Thread Pranesh Prakash
tead of viewing the community with > the following attitude. One person maketh not the community and the community cannot be reduced to one person. Please do not expand the objections I took to one instance of one person's engagement as applying to the whole community. I do also believe