Apar GuptaTRAI recently issued a consultation paper on Media Ownership where it was concerned with the increase in cross-ownership and reduction in media plurality. After some research I came across several FCC commissioned studies which concluded that there was a …
Archives for the month October 2008
Civil Procedure and the Internet
The Delhi High Court in the case of Frank Finn Management Consultants v. Subhash Motwani and Another (CS(OS) 367/2002) determined the scope of its jurisdiction under Section 19 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 while making reference to the availability of the publication …
TRAI invites expression of interest in Spectrum Trading
The TRAI has invited expression of interest by consultants to advise it on the issue of Spectrum Trading. It marks a significant step away from the present position of not allowing trading in spectrum. For a copy of the TRAI …
TRAI’s Do Not Call Registry completes one year
On October 11, TRAI’s Do not call registry completed one year of effective operation. The press release indicates that in the past 6 months, “81 thousand complaints were received…out of which more than 79 thousand complaints have been addressed..”. Read …
ICICI accuses Websites of causing recent bear run on its script
The recent liquidity crunch has resulted in a uniform bear run on the stocks of Indian Banks. Though ICICI bank has particularly been the victim of rumors as to its alleged liquidity crunch. In a FIR filed by the bank …
News, Current Affairs soon on FM Radio
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has in principle approved private FM Channels to air news and current affairs programmes produced by AIR. The proposal awaits the signature of the cabinet minister and also requires a Cabinet clearance. Read more …
Inventing Statute: Einstein’s in the Indian Patent Office
This post reminds me of lawschool folklore narrated by one of my colleagues of how a professor quizzed a class on the criteria for patentability. Seeing this as an easy brownie point a student parroted, “novelty, usefulness and non-obviousness”. The …
Bluebooking Plugin
I recently discovered that Zotero a free citation management plugin for Firefox supports the bluebook (dont know which edition!). The bluebook style can be downloaded from here. Its not perfect and the output may sometimes be incorrect but it …
Terror Suspects charged with Hacking
The mumbai police have charged Mohammed Mansoor Asgar Peerbhoy, an alleged member of the Indian Mujaheddin with Hacking for sending a terror email. Mohammed Mansoor’s alleged modus operandi was driving around to identify the places from where there were strong …
See you in court ?
Ambush marketing was at play again when Airtel sought to launch its DTH services. Airtel to build up pre-launch hype ran an ad campaign which teased viewers with the display of a red sofa and a voice over, “…