Electronic Commerce Law
The Super Power season: exploring the power of the web
The BBC is running a season from March 18th to 19th on how the web is transforming people’s lives. There are documentaries, features and specials on television and radio and even more material available online.
Their endeavor is to answer some of the big questions: what kind of business do we want now that all businesses [...]
PIL : P is not only for the “public”
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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 decisions [...]
Summer Internship Program 2010
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Summer Internship Program 2010……
For 10 weeks each summer The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University swings opens the doors of its big yellow house to welcome a group of talented, curious, and energetic full-time interns who are passionate about the promise of the Internet and issues related [...]
A broader implementation of human readable contracts
The success and popularity of the creative commons license is symptomatic of the growing sentiment of Internet users and authors against the expansionary nature of intellectual property law. The creative commons license allows the authors of creative works to license out of default copyright provisions and allows greater rights to the users of their [...]
Talk on the empirical examination of business outsourcing transactions
Today I attended an interesting workshop on a paper by Prof. George S. Geis on business outsourcing contracts as part of the ongoing Law and Economics workshop series. At the very beginning Prof. Gies noted that there was very little empirical data or studies on outsourcing contracts due to the inherent confidentiality (due to fear [...]
Two Acts, One Trick
Within hours of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, news channels were making comparisons of the attacks to the terror strike on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The invented coinage, “India’s 9/11” gained quick currency and was applied to how the attacks had affected each one of us individually. The similarity is not [...]
Civil Procedure and the Internet
The Delhi High Court in the case of Frank Finn Management Consultants v. Subhash Motwani and Another (CS(OS) 367/2002) determined the scope of its jurisdiction under Section 19 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 while making refrence to the availibility of the publication on the internet. The case concerned a suit for damages publishing [...]
Bombay HC, “Reveal thyself Blogger”
A defamation suit made the Bombay HC say, “abracadabra relief granted against Google”. Google Inc. is the owner of the popular blogging platform Blogpost. Blogpost hosted a blog by one toxicwriter (a pseudonym chosen by the blogger to mask his/her identity)…
Govt, Blackberry makers to jointly resolve security issues
After the recent bomb blasts in Delhi the national security v. blackberry (i know it rhymes).. argument is well being argued again read more here
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Avnish Bajaj back in Safe Harbors
Four years ago the Delhi High Court in granting bail to Mr. Avnish Bajaj, the CEO of Ebay India (popularly known as the Bazee MMS Case) stated that the case will “address the dangers which are endemic in this type of business”. Recently when hearing an application to quash the charges which were framed [...]
