INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore, 560 059 COLLOQUIM - 3 (2015 2017) Intellectual Property Rights A Debate ABSTRACT Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has been a subject of intense discussion. On one side, IPR brings value to ensure that innovators are rewarded for their intellectual creations and on the other sides, it is argued that it is against free expression and exchange of ideas. IPR dispute has involved the fun-damental trade-off between this two arguments. It brings a dilemma as how to balance artistic and entrepreneurial incentives with the interest of the larger community of users in a free unhindered exchange of ideas and product. There is a criticism that aggressive protection schemes of IPR re-gime goes beyond any possibility of creativity by others. So in recent times, the question arises as does it promote the progress of science and useful arts or promotes the unnecessary government monopoly. In this debate, we are going to discuss the issues of IPR and whether we still need it in a knowledge and technology age or should we do away with it. This will shed light on a critical reassessment of IPR. In this colloquium the speakers are as follows: Moderator Kanu Chakraborty Group 1 Shiva Shankar Mahato Gurrala Srinivas Dipanwita Das Group 2 Alovi Zhimomi Sagar Gajbe Kumari Vandana Date: 16-03-2016 Time: 2 p.m. Venue: DRTC (Room G-21), ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. Coordinator Dr. Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.