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Copyright-A Bane For The Students Or A Boon For Copyright Owners?

IP and Legal Filings

Among the other solutions, the most easy and feasible way to come out of the problem of unavailability and unaffordability was to start copying the books, study materials, and video lectures with the help of different mechanisms. Lack of good libraries even within an institution is the most common problem seen across our country. Way Forward.

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By Whom and How Are Our Patent Examiners Being Recruited? Digging Past the Recent Re-Notification of the Exams

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A cropped version of a scanned copy of a US newspaper named ‘The Examiner’ (image from here ) This post is co-authored with Swaraj. Do any of our readers have more insight on if they are/were connected to the IP regime? All these questions do make one wonder if there can’t be more transparency and accountability in this whole process.

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Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher

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Fisher was a leading activist, attorney and educator who fought to become the first African American student admitted to the Oklahoma University College of Law in 1949. Fisher’s landmark case opened higher education to African American students in the state of Oklahoma and helped pave the way for desegregation in the United States.

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Connecticut’s Privacy Law Signed by Governor

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It: sets responsibilities and privacy protection standards for data controllers; gives consumers the right to access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of personal data and to opt out of the processing or personal data for certain purposes (e.g., The CPDPA is designed to establish a framework for controlling and processing personal data.

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Privacy and Security Roundup: New consumer privacy laws, big developments in ransomware attacks and the FBI’s Operation Trojan Shield

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Obtain a portable copy of the data. OPPA would not apply to GLBA-governed data, HIPAA-covered entities or business associates, higher education institutions and business-to-business transactions, among other carve outs. were configured to “blind copy” all messages to an FBI-controlled platform. persons.

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A (More!) Problematic Plagiarism: Thinking About The Allegations Against UGC

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Lokesh is an LLM Candidate (IP and Technology) at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), Arcadia Fellow at PIJIP , and Arodhum Scholar, 2021. the credibility of UGC’s draft curriculum and the potential implications of non-contextual copying. He graduated from the Institute of Law Nirma University, Ahmedabad in 2021.