An Indian law blog on internet, media and telecom.
Friendster, Orkut, Myspace, remember these names? Even if you don’t, I am sure you remember the incessant spamming! Twitter has a resounding answer for spammers by using the much ignored but quite necessary Terms of Service (ToS).
An interesting development …
Google’s AdWords programme is the primary revenue earning service for the internet giant, with Google claiming in its unaudited 2011 financial results that it earned more than thirty billion from the same. Yet the service has been barraged with controversy …
In a recent litigation involving arrears for the use of cellular services the Bombay High Court had occasion to refer to an interesting cross section of electronic evidence, telecommunications regulations and consumer law. The case titled as, Vodafone Essar Ltd. Vs. Raju …
Obama’s India visit was countered with huge applause when the US Prez announced his intention to take ISRO and four of its subsidiaries and DRDO and its subsidiaries off its entities list. A significant removal from the entities list is …
Both TRAI and RBI has agreed to introduce mobile banking in India . To read more please click here. To get a a general idea about mobile banking please click here
Thanks to PRS Legislative as the Copyright Act Amendment Bill, 2010 is finally online. While glancing through the bill I noticed four provisions which can have direct impact on electronic commerce. The first two are exceptions from Copyright Liability …
One of the decisions I came across while recently authoring a paper on privacy law was the Delhi High Court decision in the case of Petronet LNG v. Indian Petro Group and Anr. (CS (OS) No. 1102/2006). What I …
I introduce myself as final year student at the National University of Juridical Sciences. My area of academic interest includes Telecommunications Law and regulatory theory in general. As for my credentials I have got few publications at leading International law …
Adjudicating on an appeal filed by BSNL (the state telecommunication provider), the Supreme Court in the case of BSNL v. BPL Mobile Cellular (Per Sinha, J.) (2008) 13 SCC 597 addressed the applicability of internal circulars of the DoT to modify terms for telecommunication contracts entered under the Telegraph Act.
Throughout the annals of precedent there are catenas of cases which are ignored. Their insignificance arises from the common restatements which they contain rather than the novel propositions they advance. The TDSAT decision in Music Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, Petition no. 73 (C) of 2008, 29th April 2009 is one such case. The facts of the case demonstrate two juggernauts which stand in the path of quicker roll-out of broadcasting and telecom services.
Avantika Banerjee
Sudipto Sircar
Apar Gupta
Saptak Sanyal