Abstract:
Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), Ministry of AYUSH, Government
of India partnered with Society for Social Development and Peoples Action (SDPA) to
organize a National Conference on Ethics, Copyrights and Plagiarism in Research &
Publications at AYUSH- Sabhagar, New Delhi on 8th August 2015. The conference
was aimed at raising awareness about copyright infringement, enhancing knowledge
about Intellectual Property Right issues/laws etc and guiding participants to prevent
plagiarism. The conference was attended by 125 delegates including Medical and
library professionals, researchers and students from ten states across the country.
Four scientific sessions on Intellectual property rights- changing concerns, IPR issues
in Research & Publications, IPR laws and judicial institution, Internet & Challenges
to IPR were held; key speakers of the sessions being Prof. Alka Chawla, Dr. Somen
Chakraborty and Dr. Deepankar Mukherjee respectively. The conference concluded
with a set of recommendations collated from the papers presented, speeches delivered
and individual feedback from the participants. Dr. Raj K. Manchanda in his closing
remarks thanked the organising team of both SDPA and CCRH. He further assured to
organize events on copyright subjects every year for benefit of all.
