LAW AND MEDIA EXPERIMENTS

Law and Media- Emerging Experiments

While we often pay lip service to the idea of inter-disciplinarity, putting it into practice as a self conscious part of the way we go about interrogating disciplines is often a much more difficult task. At ALF, we have been committed to the idea of an alternative practice of law, consisting not merely of engaging with the law in a different manner, but also subjecting the entire edifice of legal theory through different entry points from other disciplines and practices.

Queering Bollywood

Queering Bollywood is a playful, experimental and interpretative CD database that explores queer representations in Indian cinema. It also contains the short film that is a re-edit of a popular mainstream film as a tale of queer desire.

CD Resource on Censorship

ALF has compiled an exhaustive CD resource on censorship law and history

Database on Intellectual Property

As a part of the IP and the Knowledge/ Culture Commons ALF has compiled a huge IP database which researchers and students can access at ALF.

Copyright Comic - An invitation to a Recension

The WIPO has produced a pedagogic comic book which introduces readers to the basics of copyright and why piracy is a crime. This perhaps calles for a remix

Right02Copy

A comic that talks about copying as culture, and how art, music and other forms of creativity rely on copying. This comic is a rescension/parody/counterdrama of the comic published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Feedback can be sent to namita@altlawforum.org

Trademark Comic

The trademark comic is the next in the series of the parodies/counter-dramas of pedagogic comics brought out by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The original file is available at http://www.wipo.org/freepublications/en/marks/483/wipo_pub_483.pdf For feedback and comments write to lawrence, tahir or namita@altlawforum.org

Now Showing The Cinematograph Act, 1952

Now Showing The Cinematograph Act, 1952 is an interpretative archive of sound, image, video, newspaper, music, movie clips, art etc. that attempts to look at the law (The Cinematograph Act, 1952) beyond its text. An audio-visual journey into the law as cinema, rather than the law for cinema. The entire database is not available online yet, but will be put up soon. If you desire the CD/DVD version, please email us.

Patent Comic

Finally the last installment of the series of parodies of the comics brought out by World Intellectual Property Organization, on (guess what?) patents. Little bit more out there and zanier -- enjoy!! File size: 7.9 MB

Brokeback Bharat

Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee's Oscar winning film, is a story of gay love. It has spun off many parodies and take-offs. We have created a trailer titled Brokeback Bharat, as part of the campaign against the law that makes homosexuality in India illegal. To download this file click on the above link. The file size is 22.1 MB