yes mam. congratulations on their success
all of us should be ever grateful to them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Renuka Warriar" <eren...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Copyright amendment finally through
Friends,
Let us congratulate one and all who worked tirelessly for this
without which this would haven't happen.
On 5/22/12, Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visuall St. Xavier's
College <xr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
I am writing this email soon after the Lok Sabha passed the Amendment to
the
Copyright Act 1957. It has been a very interesting experience working on
this Amendment and seeing it approved. Six years ago when the XRCVC first
got in to the process, we never realized that the road ahead was so
complex
and would take so many twists and turns. At last it is through and we wait
the Presidential approval and the final Gazette notification.
I'd like to thank so many people and organizations that have helped make
this possible. To start with, the work of Late Prof Vinod Sena who had
made
a deposition to Parliamentarians prior to 2006. I would like to thank
organizations who supported the representation we had worked on as part of
the Publication Access Co-ordination Committee (PACC). Simultaneously the
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) also started putting on pressure. We
had many ups and downs largely as a result of the constant transfers of
Copyright Registrars and us having to start the work all over again.
The demand for a suitable Amendment gained more momentum with the DAISY
Forum of India (DFI) demanding the appropriate change. Further, many other
organizations joined as part of the National Access Alliance (NAA). A big
thank you to all of them.
I'd also like to thank the Parliamentary Standing committee who called us
and gave us a patient hearing and in spite of pressure saw logic and merit
in our arguments. Further, a big thank you to our Parliamentarians, many
of
whom we contacted personally who made this possible. We acknowledge the
very
positive role of Shri Kapil Sibl, Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource and
Development and Mr. G.R. Raghavender, Director - Book Promotion, Copyright
,
Education Policy, UNESCO, Indian National Commission & International
Co-operation Cell / Registrar – Copyright
A big thank you to Rahul Cherian, Nirmita Narsimhan, Ketan Kothari,
Dipendra
Manocha, Kanchan Pamnani, Shamnad Basheer with whom we have had the
pleasure
of working, planning and giving shape to this historic Amendment. I'd also
like to place on record XRCVC's gratitude to Sightsavers whose Project
Access has helped make this social advocacy project dream a reality.
Thank you once again one and all.
Best Regards,
Dr. Sam Taraporevala
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Director
Xavier's Resource Center for the Visually Challenged
(XRCVC)
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai - 400 001
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+91 22 22623298 (D)
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+91 22 24228769 (R)
+91 9869378436 (M)
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