[Mission 2022] Insta– QUED ( Questions from Editorials ) 04 December 2021 – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: b)

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, is a 1998 law passed in the US and is among the world’s first laws recognising intellectual property on the internet. Signed into law by the then US President Bill Clinton, the law oversees the implementation of the two treaties signed and agreed upon by member nations of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in 1996.

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Solution: d)

Banni grasslands form a belt of arid grassland ecosystem on the outer southern edge of the desert of the marshy salt flats of Rann of Kutch in Kutch District, Gujarat.

They are currently legally protected under the status as a protected or reserve forest in India. 

The region’s nomadic pastoralist community, the Maldharis, whose livelihoods are depend on Banni grasslands.

Banni grassland is spread over 2,618 kilometre and account for almost 45 per cent of the pastures in Gujarat.

Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has identified this grassland reserve as one of the last remaining habitats of the cheetah in India.

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Solution: d)

Primary sources of black carbon include emissions from diesel engines and vehicles, biomass burning such as cook stoves and domestic wood burning, and forest fires. Other sources include domestic heating and industry.

Solution: c)

A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet’s magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged (not to be confused with geographic north and geographic south). Another interesting consequence will be that animals that use Earth’s magnetic field for navigation—including birds, salmon, and sea turtles—could get lost during their routine journeys. 

Because sea turtles use both marine and terrestrial habitats during their life cycles, the affects of climate change are likely to have a devastating impact on these species.

Because sea turtles are reptiles, they rely on the temperature of the sand in which the eggs incubate to determine the gender of the hatchling in a nest. Typically, the eggs in the lower, cooler, part of the nest will become males, while the eggs in the upper, warmer, part of the nest will become females. With increasing nest temperatures, scientists predict that there will be more female than male hatchlings, creating a significant threat to genetic diversity. 

In the Great Barrier Reef, Warmer temperatures led to “feminisation of green turtles originating from nesting beaches in the northern Region, potentially leading to significant scarcity or absence of adult males in the future”.

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Solution: a)

Who can generate a DMCA notice and how are they sent to companies or websites?

Any content creator of any form, who believes that their original content has been copied by user or a website without authorisation can file an application citing their intellectual property has been stolen or violated.

Users can either approach the website on which the content has been hosted, or third party service providers like DMCA.com, which utilise a team of experts to help take down the stolen content for a small fee.

In the case of social media intermediaries like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, content creators can directly approach the platform with a proof of them being original creators.

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