DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF
POLICY AND PROMOTION COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
“Intellectual Property Rights for Media”
Delhi (26h February 2009)
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
10.00 –10.30 hrs REGISTRATION
Inaugural Session
10.30 – 10.40AM Welcome Address by Dr. Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI
10.40-10.50hrs Address by Shri N N Prasad, Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy
and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, GoI
10.50-11.00hrs Address by Ms. Sushma Singh, Secretary, Information & Broadcast Ministry
11.00 – 11:10hrs Inaugural Address by Shri Ajay Shanker, Secretary, Department of
Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP)
11.10 – 11.30 hrs. Concluding Remarks by Shri Subhash Chandra, Zee Cinema
11.30 – 11.45 hrs Tea/Coffee
Session 1
11.45 – 12.05 hrs Role of Media in relation to Geographical Indications, Industrial Design
and Copyright
SPEAKER 1 : Mr. T.C. James, Director, Department of Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP)
SPEAKER 2: Mr. Chandraker Bharti, Director, Department of Industrial
Policy and Promotion (DIPP)
SPEAKER 3: Mr. J. F. Ribeiro, IPS (Retd.), Former Spl. Secretary, Ministry
of Home Affairs & presently Chief Co-ordinator, the Indian Music Industry
(IMI)
12.05 – 12.25 hrs Role of media in relation to Trademarks & Patents
SPEAKER 1 : Mr. M.S. Dhakad, Director, Department of Industrial Policy
and Promotion (DIPP)
SPEAKER 2 : Mr. V Ravi, Controller General of Patent, Trademarks and
Design
12.25 – 12 .35 hrs Role of Chambers of Industry in bridging the Gap between Industry &
Government
SPEAKER: Representative from Industry
12.35 – 01.30 hrs IPR Issues being faced by Media : Panel Discussion
Moderator: Prabhu Chawla, India Today Group
Speakers: Representatives from Electronic Media Hindi, English, regional
(CNN-IBN, CNBC, NDTV, Zee TV, Sun TV), Print Media (Business Standard,
ToI, HT, Economic Times)
01.30 – 02.30 hrs Lunch Break
Session 2
02.30 - 03.00 hrs Intellectual Property Education for Journalists- Curbing the menace
of Misrepresentation of facts
SPEAKER: Mr. Pravin Anand, Managing Partner, Anand & Anand
03.00 -03.30 hrs Journalism under the hood of Copyright
SPEAKER: Shri Arun Jaitley, Senior Advocate before Hon’bl Supreme Court
03.30 – 04.00 hrs Recent Case Laws
SPEAKER: Mr. Vidya Sagar, Partner, Remfry & Sagar
04.00– 04.30 hrs Intellectual Property Rights and the Business of Sports - Leveraging
the value of IPR
SPEAKER: Representative from BCCI/Prasar Bharti
04.30 – 04.45 hrs Tea/Coffee Break
04.45– 05.15 hrs IPR and the Business of Sports: Challenges and Opportunities
SPEAKER: Ms. Pratibha Singh, Partner, Amarjeet Singh & Associates
05.15 - 05.45 hrs Concluding Remarks and panel discussion
Vote of thanks by FICCI
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