The article, while discussing the legalities of the litigation concerning the author’s client, attempts to unpack the implications of the Digital Millenium Copyrights Act (DMCA) on Application softwares. The author analyses how the adjudication process under the DMCA does not account for the principle of equality of arms and rather reinforces copyright protection, without any real recourse to judicial review.
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The article argues that certain social media intermediaries may become publishers by design, with regards to the curation of the News feed, in the light of IT Rules, 2021.
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This article analyzes Rule 4(2) of the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules by focusing on the Rule and the press release issued by the Govt of India on the Rule.
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In this post the authors discuss about the ‘due diligence’ obligation with a focus on its scope and its relationship with the intermediary guidelines issued under the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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In early 2007, two female law students in America were targets of degrading comments on the site “AutoAdmit”, a discussion page meant for law students and lawyers. In her article on internet misogyny, Martha Nussbaum …
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In Part I, through the cases of Sharat Babu Digumarti v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Gagan Harish Sharma v. The State of Maharashtra , we understood the position of law with respect to …
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There have been several questions regarding the simultaneous applicability of the Information Technology Act [“IT Act”] and the Indian Penal Code [“IPC”] due to considerable overlaps between the offences provided for in these statutes. The …
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