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Experts lay stress on need to respect IPRs
THE SECOND day of the national seminar on ?IPR-IT and Broadcasting Rights? being held at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A) saw the convergence of the best brains from the academia and industry in the country to resolve the complex issues of intellectual properties and broadcasting rights.Presentations made in the seminar focused on, broadcasting rights/mass communication and the kinds of piracy under it. The first session was chaired by Director, Patents & IPR Cell, MIT, Dr RC Tripathi.
THE SECOND day of the national seminar on ‘IPR-IT and Broadcasting Rights’ being held at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A) saw the convergence of the best brains from the academia and industry in the country to resolve the complex issues of intellectual properties and broadcasting rights.
Presentations made in the seminar focused on, broadcasting rights/mass communication and the kinds of piracy under it. The first session was chaired by Director, Patents & IPR Cell, MIT, Dr RC Tripathi. General manager, Personnel, Prasar Bharati, GG Saxena delivered a talk on ‘WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, Indian stand and Prasar Bharati’ on behalf of KS Sarma CEO, Prasar Bharati.
Saxena underlined the importance of respecting intellectual property rights and the need for broadcasters to be extra-vigilant in this regard.
Director of Resource Centre for Media Education and Research (RECMER ) Keval J Kumar dwelt upon ‘Mass media, culture, and intellectual property rights: A public domain perspective’.
Following him, Director, AIR, Karuna Srivastava discussed the challenges before the All India Radio and described how AIR had taken new initiatives towards checking IPR violations and safeguarding the interests of artistes and performers.
The second session of the day was chaired by GG Saxena and witnessed an exciting confluence of information regarding legal issues and relevance of IPR in broadcasting.
Supreme Court lawyer Abhishek Malhotra delivered a presentation on ‘WIPO treaty on protection of rights of broadcast organisations’.
Following him, Prof K Anbudurai and R Balamurugan of Anna University elaborated on the development of computer-related crimes versus prevention strategies.
The concluding presentation was given by Dr BR Pandey of the Council of Science and Technology, UP, who emphasised on the role of IPR and IT in entertainment and broadcasting. The speakers stressed the subjectivity of the definition of Broadcast which was described as extremely broad and expansive.
The underlying problems of no definite authorship in case of broadcast were also discussed. Specific questions were raised with regard to the step-motherly treatment given to broadcasts under the Copyright Act.
