5 research outputs found
A Reflection upon the Digital Copyright Laws in India
No full text5-14In this digital age, where everything is available at one place, to everyone, at all times, the vulnerability of copyrighted works has increased manifold. With high speed internet, peer-to-peer networks, excellent technologies facilitating rapid reproduction without loss of quality, fast and easy dissemination and high density storage devises, the copyright violation is becoming an effortless task. Though the traditional notion of copyright still remains the same i.e., protection from piracy, however, the mode of operation has and is undergoing a systematic change in the wake of technological development. The performance of rights in typical analogous copyright set-up is extremely different from the performance of such rights at digital platform. Further, ubiquity of internet coupled with various technical obstacles has made it extremely difficult for copyright holder to exactly locate and implicate the infringer/s, which in many cases may be located in different parts of the world. Now with the advent of artificial intelligence, creation of copyright subject matter by machines with very less or no human intervention is potentially raising question as to the authorship of such works. It is clear from the history of copyright laws that it has always responded in affirmation to the technological advancements by amending the existing systems to keep in tune with the changes taking place and to combat the challenges threatening its smooth and effective functioning. In this backdrop, this article presents an analysis of the phenomenal impact of digital technologies over copyright regime, its advantages and disadvantages, the protection of rights of copyright holder and the liabilities of intermediaries etc. Further, this article shall also explore the digital copyright laws available in India to combat the myriad challenges posed by the ever advancing digital technology and to find out their sufficiency
A Reflection upon the Digital Copyright Laws in India
No full textIn this digital age, where everything is available at one place, to everyone, at all times, the vulnerability of copyrighted works has increased manifold. With high speed internet, peer-to-peer networks, excellent technologies facilitating rapid reproduction without loss of quality, fast and easy dissemination and high density storage devises, the copyright violation is becoming an effortless task. Though the traditional notion of copyright still remains the same i.e., protection from piracy, however, the mode of operation has and is undergoing a systematic change in the wake of technological development. The performance of rights in typical analogous copyright set-up is extremely different from the performance of such rights at digital platform. Further, ubiquity of internet coupled with various technical obstacles has made it extremely difficult for copyright holder to exactly locate and implicate the infringer/s, which in many cases may be located in different parts of the world. Now with the advent of artificial intelligence, creation of copyright subject matter by machines with very less or no human intervention is potentially raising question as to the authorship of such works. It is clear from the history of copyright laws that it has always responded in affirmation to the technological advancements by amending the existing systems to keep in tune with the changes taking place and to combat the challenges threatening its smooth and effective functioning. In this backdrop, this article presents an analysis of the phenomenal impact of digital technologies over copyright regime, its advantages and disadvantages, the protection of rights of copyright holder and the liabilities of intermediaries etc. Further, this article shall also explore the digital copyright laws available in India to combat the myriad challenges posed by the ever advancing digital technology and to find out their sufficiency
Shaping Indian Cities: Planning and design with smart city technologies
No full textWith the emergence of the latest concept of smart cities, there is a rapid change of lifestyle and a mass migration to cities. At the same time, cities have high demands of infrastructure such as transport and building, and resources such as food, water, and energy, as well as issues like scarcity of adequate land, unapproachable government. All these are adding to the extreme need to find smarter solutions for cities, that can provide better lieable conditions for the citizens. Thus, the Indian government planned 100 smart city project. Many questions were raised on the proposal justification on time, money, approach and objectives. Through this project, I am evaluating the current proposal as an urbanist and using the opportunity to refine the project for a realistic and promising future, rather than creating a label of smartness.In this project, I explore the conditional development of smart cities, investigating various examples from different continents and producing an analytical framework towards the approach of making a city smarter. These examples are assisting me to set guidelines, to shape the Indian cities with its own definition of smartness. The focal point of this project is Delhi, but the other Indian cities will be able to learn from the process of selection of projects and principles. Although, due to lack of time, I would emphasis of few sectors of smartness, in selective neighbourhoods of Delhi.Complex CitiesSpatial planning and StrategyArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Information-distilling quantizers
No full textLet X and Y be dependent random variables. This paper considers the problem of designing a scalar quantizer for Y to maximize the mutual information between the quantizer's output and X, and develops fundamental properties and bounds for this form of quantization, which is connected to the log-loss distortion criterion. The main focus is the regime of low I(X;Y), where it is shown that, if X is binary, a constant fraction of the mutual information can always be preserved using O(log(1/I(X;Y))) quantization levels, and there exist distributions for which this many quantization levels are necessary. Furthermore, for larger finite alphabets 2<|X|<∞, it is established that an η-fraction of the mutual information can be preserved using roughly (log(|X|/I(X;Y)))^(η⋅(|X|−1)) quantization levels.https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03031First author draf
COMPASS – Comparative Analysis of Territorial Governance and Spatial Planning Systems in Europe. Applied Research 2016-2018: Final Report
No full textThe objective of the COMPASS project was to provide an authoritative comparative report on changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe from 2000 to 2016. This Final Report presents the main findings, conclusions and policy recommendations. The COMPASS project compares territorial governance and spatial planning in 32 European countries (the 28 EU member states plus four ESPON partner countries). COMPASS differs from previous studies in that the accent is not on a snapshot comparison of national systems, but on identifying trends in reforms from 2000 to 2016. It also seeks to give reasons for these changes with particular reference to EU directives and policies, and to identify good practices for the cross-fertilisation of spatial development policies with EU Cohesion Policy. The research is based on expert knowledge with reference wherever possible to authoritative sources. Experts with in-depth experience of each national system were appointed to contribute to the study. The research design involved primarily collection of data from the 32 countries through questionnaires and five in-depth case studies of the interaction of EU Cohesion Policy and other sectoral policies with spatial planning and territorial governance.Additional volumes are available on the ESPON Website Volume 1. Comparative tables Volume 2. Methodology Volume 3. Phase 1 Questionnaire answers Volume 4. Phase 2 Questionnaire answers Volume 5. Additional countries feasibility study Volume 6. Case studies Volume 7. Analysis of Europeanisation influences See: https://www.espon.eu/planning-systemsUrbanismSpatial Planning and Strateg
