Apar Gupta
Shivam Vij a known adherent of Internet Freedom and limiting the government’s powers to censor the net has written a great post on Kafila, putting into context the take down data released by Google for Youtube Videos. His rule …
Archives for the month August 2011
the great singham filesharing block
This is the second part (for part one – click here) of an analysis of the Singham Order passed by the Delhi High Court in which a john doe injunction was passed to prevent the piracy of the movie …
john doe orders and internet outages
This is a two part series. Since a lot of legal concepts are involved Part – 1 merely seeks to put a background to john doe orders and presents some data on how such orders have been granted in the …
Knowledge UnacKnowledged: Is “Safe-Harbour” principle safely docked yet in the Indian Cyberspace?
Ashwini Sharma
Pursuant to our case analysis of the T-series v. Myspace judgment, the following is an attempt at harmoniously interpreting, the apparently confusing provisions of the I.T Act and the Copyright Act, with a view to understand the presence or …
T-Series v. Myspace – A “Sound” Judgment?
The Delhi High Court recently came out with a first-of-its-kind-judgment on the issue of Intermediary Liability in India.
Intermediary, what is?
For a quick recap; in the simplest terms, to be an intermediary is to be like a …
Entrepreneur’s Guide to Copyright Registration: Introduction to Concept of Copyright
Kshitij Malhotra
Facebook’s Blast from the Past! User Beware!!
Facebook’s Blast from the Past! The Controversial New Change to User Conversations.
Facebook recently altered its user-interaction interface drastically. Users can now see all messages in one place at all times. While a user can still chat in a …
A VAS(e) full of troubles!
TRAI has recently come out with a Consultation Paper on Mobile Value Added Services on 21st July 2011. The preface of the paper highlights the tremendous potential in provision of information, services and entertainment through Mobile Value Added Services (mvas) …
TRADEMARK REGISTRATION – ENTREPRENUER’S GUIDE
With the advent of branding and the increase in value being attached to it, the issue of protection of consumers from unauthorized violation of brands is gaining importance. Most often than not, a brand is represented by a mark, called …