PART 1: COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT, SECTION 230 VIS-À-VIS INDIAN LAW ON INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY

[By Vrinda Baheti. The author is a student of Law Centre II, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.]  “The Internet is the first thing that the humanity has built that humanity does not understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we ever had.” – Eric Schmidt A. INTRODUCTION Facing severe fire from politicians in the…

PART 2: COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT, SECTION 230 VIS-À-VIS INDIAN LAW ON INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY

[By  Vrinda Baheti. The author is a student of Law Centre II, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.] D. QUESTIONS TO PONDER UPON The tussle involving the work-in-progress regulation of OTT platforms finds space in the current discussion. Nikhil Bhalla v. Union of India which sought censoring of scenes of Netflix series ‘Sacred Games’, Justice…

THE DEFENSE OF ‘INNOCENT TIPPEE’ IN INSIDER TRADING LAWS IN INDIA

[By  Deepanshu Agarwal and Khushal Juneja . The authors are students of UPES Dehradun] Introduction Insider trading is the wrong of trading in securities with the favor of having asymmetrical access to unpublished information which when published would affect the price of securities in the market. The SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 (“regulations”)…