Intermediaries
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 [...]
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)…
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 [...]
Liability of Intermediaries – Judicially Defined and Explained
In the case of Sanjay Kumar Kedia v. Narcotics Control Bureau, the Supreme Court deciding a special leave petition touched on Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The Petitioner (Sanjay Kumar Kedia) was ostensibly running an online pharmacy which was allegedly used to sell psychotropic substances to customers without prescriptions. He was subsequently [...]
Cyber Cafe Record Retention
District magistrate Chandigarh Administration, has prohibited the use of cyber cafes by unknown persons, whose identifications could not be established by the owners of the cafés. The café owners have been asked to maintain registers to establish identities of visitors/users by making entries regarding visitors’ names, addresses, telephone numbers and identity proofs. Visitors/users would make [...]
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 operators of websites hosted on their servers from posting alleged defamatory content against the applicant. The [...]
