Name of the Department: IIC Council
Date: 23 April 2022
Time and duration: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Venue: Offline AV Hall
Resource Person with affiliation: Pankaj Kumar - MHRD Innovation Ambassador at the IIS deemed to be University and the IPR Facilitator
Topic on which activity was organised: "Sensitization on Copyright Issues" on the eve of World Book & Copyright Day
Number of Participants: 65 (Students (60) and faculty (5)

Objective of the Workshop/Seminar/Activity: The objective of the session was to make the participants aware on Copyright one of the Intellectual Property Right (IPR), to apprise the participants of the scope of Copyright, and to give insights into the Journey of this subject so far.

Overall Report of the activity: The IPR Cell of the IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur, in
association with the University NDLI-club, organised an offline session on 23th April, 2022 celebrating World Book & Copyright Day. The speaker of the session was Innovation Ambassador and the IPR Facilitator Pankaj Kumar. The Central Library of IIS (deemed to be University) organized an interactive session on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day on the topic- "Sensitization on Copyright Issues" on 23rd April, 2022. The in-house resource person for the event was Mr. Pankaj Kumar, an Intellectual Property Rights facilitator. Dr. Sonal Jain, Librarian apprised the gathering of the significance of the annual event initiated by UNESCO on April 23, marking the death anniversary of the writers William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vegas. The day is celebrated to promote the importance of reading, a lifelong love of literature and its integration into the workplace, to inculcate joy and foster the growth of readers, and emphasize the pleasure of reading.
Dr. Sonal Jain, then, introduced the event’s resource person, Mr. Pankaj Kumar, IPR Facilitator, IIS (deemed to be University) whose candid interaction with the students and faculty, precisely sensitized the assemblage of the copyright issues. He discussed copyright as a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works. The multiplicity of copyright ranges from books, music, paintings, sculpture, and films, to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps, and technical drawings. In particular, he explored the polyvalent applications of the copyright system and the internalization of rules and regulations, which ensures the author’s authority over the original creation or the institution he is working for.

Outcome: More than 60 participants enthusiastically participated in the talk. The mode of interaction equitably resolved the dubieties of students and proved to be a beneficial and informative session.
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