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Market Access Initiative is a scheme to perform a catalytic role to promote exports and addressing interventions. It is required by India to explore new markets and promote export-oriented activities so that commodities and services can be performed.
Objective
Promoting exports and addressing interventions.
Scope of MAI scheme
For undertaking several market access initiatives delineated this scheme provides financial support to the eligible agencies. It includes direct or indirect activities meant for marketing, capacity building, branding, market research, and statutory compliances in import markets.
Agencies who are eligible to avail of the MAI Scheme
The departments of the Central Government and organization of the Central or the State Governments
The Export Promotion Councils
The Registered Trade Promotion Organizations
The Commodity Boards
The Apex Trade Bodies are known under the EXIM-Policy of Government of Indian Market Access Initiative or MAI Scheme
Specific Recognized Industrial clusters
Individual exporters
Activities to be funded under the marketing project
Opening of the showrooms
Opening of the warehouses
Display in international Departmental stores
Publicity campaign
Brand promotion
Participation in trade fair etc. situated abroad
Research
Product development
Reverse visits of the prominent buyers from the focused countries
Export survey of the states
Registration charges for product registration abroad (pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and agro-chemicals)
Testing charges for engineering products abroad
Support cottage units
Support handicrafts units
Support the well-known associations of the industrial clusters for marketing in the aboard
The procedural history of the MAI scheme
MAI manufactures computers. It also provides the designs. The MAI scheme implements the software that can run on the computers it manufactures. The software is generally licensed to the customers for their own internal information processing. The MAI licenses allow for the loading of the software into the RAM by the MAI customers. Finally, The MAI gives servicing to the hardware and software for its machines. Peak Computer which was organized by a former MAI employee, is an independent service organization performs for maintaining the computer systems for its clients. Peak's clients include the customers of MAI's computer systems. The MAI scheme has the copyright interests in software as it designs and implements by including the operating system software that is needed to run the other programs on the computer. The MAI's operating system software is actually designed to give load automatically from the hard disk into the computer's RAM every moment that the computer is turned on. The Servicing procedure of the computer whether it is done by Peak service technicians or others, usually requires the computer to be turned on. Hence, the automatic loading feature of the operating system into the RAM takes place.
Important factors ignored by MAI
The Ninth circuits suggest that Peak was guilty of copyright infringement cases and is problematic also as it resulted in the MAI using its copyright interests in its software so the usage of the computer can be controlled. By inhibiting Peak's uses of the computer, The MAI effectively extended its copyright monopoly. It was done by reserving an exclusive right to perform servicing the hardware on which the software can runs. This kind of result generally defeats the purpose of the copyright law which is meant to protect an author's interest in the work that is copyrighted.
Additional resources
https://lenstax.com/l/privacy-and-eligibilty-to-register-work-under-copyright
https://lenstax.com/l/duration-and-limitation-of-the-rights-provided-by-copyright
https://lenstax.com/l/indivisibility-and-divisibility-of-copyright
https://lenstax.com/l/strategic-considerations-as-per-the-u-s-litigation
https://lenstax.com/l/registering-copyrights-for-computer-programs