Roundtable on ‘Copyright in Practice: Perspectives from Archives and Libraries’ | By QAMRA & CIPRA

Open to the public. 

The Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection, and Activism (QAMRA) and the Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy (CIPRA) are jointly organising a roundtable titled ‘Copyright in Practice: Perspectives from Archives and Libraries.’

Event Details

• Venue: Ground Floor Conference Hall, Training Centre, NLSIU
• Day & Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026
• Timings: 9.30 AM – 1.30 PM

Open to the public. To attend kindly register here.

About the Roundtable

This roundtable will examine how copyright law shapes – and sometimes constrains – the work of archives and libraries. Copyright is one of the most important, and very often poorly understood, aspect of archiving and librarianship.

Professionals in the fields of archives, libraries, and intellectual property and copyright law will come together to address concerns and conceptualise best practices. The roundtable will primarily have two sessions: the first will consist of archivists and librarians sharing their insights, experiences, and predictions, the second will be focussed on the exceptions to and limitations of copyright right law from a comparative perspective, looking at Indian and U.S. copyright law. The second part of the discussion will address concerns raised in the first.

The roundtable will feature a keynote by Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, a renowned scholar and activist in the area of open access.

Schedule

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam, Renowned Scholar and Activist

Roundtable 1:

• Deepika S., Senior Archivist, Archives at NCBS
• Shiju Alex, Principal Archivist and Director, India Digital Archive
• Madhan Muthu, Director, The Global Library, O. P. Jindal Global University
• Dr. Biswadeep Chakraborty, Archivist, India Foundation for the Arts, Bengaluru
• Mira Brunner, Chief Archivist, QAMRA Archival Project, NLSIU

Roundtable 2:

• Ana Enriquez, Head of the Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright, Penn State University Libraries, and Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, NLSIU
• Dr. Zakir T. Thomas, DPIIT IPR Chair Professor, NLSIU
• Dr. Arul George Scaria, Co-Director, CIPRA and Professor of Law, NLSIU