Apar GuptaThis post is a departure from my short blog bytes. With some time on my hands I wrote a short note on the basic principle of drafting an outsourcing agreement, the balance between certainty and flexibility. I felt with the …
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Apar Gupta is a litigator based in New Delhi, India. He holds a masters degree from Columbia Law School and has authored a Commentary on the Information Technology Act, 2000 (published by LexisNexis).
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Men at Work : ITA 2006
Some news on the Information Technology Act Amendment Bill, 2006. The parliamentary committee is reported to have suggested further modifications to the Information Technology Act Amendment Bill, 2006 with a specific focus towards, “Grooming of children for sexual relationship”. The …
Like a rolling stone
The Rolling Stones song, “gimme shelter” is an apt soundtrack to EU-Microsoft Antitrust saga. Recently in the appeals court confirmed the finding of the European Anti Trust Commission that Microsoft had indeed abused the dominance of its …
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2006
I have discussed at length the absence of privacy and data protection standards in India. Hence it came as quite a surprise, that a bill on data protection had been introduced in the Rajya Sabha. The bill is titled as…
Cyber Cafe Record Retention
Kerala Gazette goes online
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Gazette has gone online. All notifications and government orders published in the gazette can now be viewed on the portal www.egazette.kerala.gov.in. With this, Kerala has become the first State to offer the facility. Notifications in Malayalam
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Just a little patience
It is a given that any statute should be abreast with the phenomena it aims to regulate. This constant holds good in the case of The Information Technology Act, 2000. Though not an archaic legislation, however since it aims to …
An Indian Court and Two Dutch ISP
This news is ironical for a person aware of dutch courts convenient adoption of universal jurisdiction against human rights violators. Two Dutch ISP’s seem to be in disregard of an interim injunction passed by a Bangalore court restraining the …
Thoughts on Lessig’s Talk @ Google Author Series
Recently I came across a video of an hour long presentation by Prof. Lawrence Lessig. It was extremely educative on his thoughts on culture in the market place, his thoughts on wiki’s, remixes, creative commons and copyright.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbRE_H5hoU[/video]
The presentation …
Net Neutrality Litmus : India Turning Positive
The principle of net neutrality is quite simply the specification of minimum standards in achieving an objective. This allows multiple flavors of implementation, and hence it does not lock out innovation by multiple entities, does not make monopolies. The usage …