CLaM: Provisions of the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 are up on the CLaM website

Thanks to the untiring efforts of Sai Vinod Nayani, an enthusiatic third year student at NUJS, a few more provisions of the the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 are now up on the CLAM website. As our readers may remember, Shamnad had introduced the Collaborative Law Making (ClaM) venture in December last year. As he had stated the CLaM Initiative attempts to engineer a shift from “representative” to “direct” democracy by enhancing public participation in the framing of laws. It builds on the “collaborative” and “open” approach popularised by “open source” software and other initiatives such as Wikipedia. To this end, it seeks to build an online model of collaborative participation to help with the framing of laws/policies.”

We had earlier posted only the proposed disability provision on the ClaM website. Thanks to Vinod we now have the following three provisions up on Clam for discussion:

(i)The amendment relating to authors of underlying cinematographic work;
(ii) The amendment relating to fair dealing exception for personal use;
(iii) The amendment relating to copyright societies.

While the ClaM website does provide a basic background to the proposed amendments, for a more detailed background to the amendments proposed by us, we refer you to our report which was submitted to the Parliamentary Standing Committee examining the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010. The report can be accessed over here.

We urge all our readers to collaborate with us on this project which aims at reforming the law with your help.