Sudipto SircarThe Judgment in the settlement proposed in the Google Books Case has once again thrown unwanted light upon Google’s business ambitions. But does this mean that the judgement is a turning point in Google’s career and its internet growth strategy …
Archives for the month July 2011
Design Registration – Entrepreneur’s Read
Kshitij MalhotraAn Act in Motion
Apar Gupta
This lack of detail and nuance is the central fault of the IT Act. The 2008 Amendment by increasing the breadth as well as the aspiration of the enactment only compounds this problem. This over ambition brings in a tremendous lack of appreciation of the changing and the complex character of the Internet.
who takes the blame for a forged tap order ?
The Amar Singh Judgment where Amar Singh, the former BSP politician complained to the Supreme Court that his phone was illegally tapped, presents one of the most significant holdings on telecommunications privacy since the PUCL Judgment. The decision is …
Comments on the Privacy Bill, 2011
The last post contained an analysis of the third working draft of the Privacy Bill, 2011 dated 19th April, 2011 which aims to create a statutory right of privacy in India (download here). This post contains certain …
Commentary on Information Technology Act
I am pleased to inform our readers that the Second Edition of my book on the Information Technology Act is now on order from Lexis Nexis India. The book is a section based commentary on the principal enactment governing …