Apar Gupta
First Impressions on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Thanks to PRS Legislative 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 where provisions have been inserted to further shield intermediaries. Here, Sec. 52(1)(b) contains a [...]
the utilitarian critique of E2 Labs v. Zone-H
Image by ulle.b via Flickr Most litigation lawyers are aware of the incredible power of interim orders. These orders acquire a heightened status due to the prolonged delays which beset our adjudicatory institutions. Often these delays morph interim orders into perpetual ones. Hence, they turn from merely protecting the rights of the Plaintiff to offending [...]
for this accursed string strangles us all
I am quite fond of the quote, “for this accursed string strangles us all”. It is the cry by an Indian Mutineer who when lead to the gallows pointed to the telegraph line which would carry his execution orders and yelled it to the morbid amusement of our former colonial masters. The cry becomes relevant [...]
burn after reading
Image via Wikipedia On any given day I am offered a Russian mail order bride, Viagra Prozac and other controlled drugs from Canadian pharmacies, win a billion Euros in a British lottery and asked for assistance to set up a fund transfer for the progeny of deposed despots from Nigeria. Beyond this spam, once a [...]
Ministry of Corporate Affairs introduces e-stamping
Stamp payments to be made by Companies on the MCA website have to be now done compulsorily through electronic means. Done under a notification called as the, ““Scheme for Filing of Statutory Documents and other Transactions by Companies in Electronic Mode, ( Second Amendment), 2009″ it comes into force on 1st April, 2010. A copy [...]
TRAI releases consultation paper on Policy issues on uplinking/downlinking television channels in India
The boom in the number of television channels has not gone unnoticed. India which till 1995 had a limited set of doordrashan national and regional channels now has about 500 channels. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India mindful of the growing number of television channels has issued a consultation paper on regulating the entry of [...]
Schadenfreude in Mandarin
Image by Getty Images via Daylife With Google exiting china we can hardly hide our glee. It seems the tiger may finally steal a march over the dragon. Pop nationalistic sentiment may rise in some newspaper columns and talk shows calling it a victory of models of government. The model’s of government debate which is [...]
Who am I to you?
Image via Wikipedia From the early 1980’s to the late 1990’s bollywood as a content production industry believed religiously in the application of “formulas” and “equations” for achieving success at the Box-Office. Rajshree Productions was one of the movie production houses which routinely used to practice this arithmetic. In the 1994 movie “Hum Aapke Hain [...]
PIL : P is not only for the “public”
Image via Wikipedia It is quite obvious that when Pornography mixes with modern technology it poses deep problems for law, Lawrence Liang writing at the Kafila Blog on “law, cinema and sleaze” in his post, “watching films blindfolded” described the difficulty of the interpretative technique in rendering decisions on “obscene movies”. Liang, wrote that legal [...]
Petronet LNG v. Indian Petro Group : Two Unpleaded Torts
Image by Write Pics via Flickr 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 found interesting were the categorical findings in the decision on [...]
