By Aniket Panchal and Swetha Somu. The authors are students of Gujarat National Law University. Availing leniency under a leniency programme provides full or partial reduction of fines imposed by the competition authority on companies indulging in cartels in return for the cooperation of such companies in disclosing vital information proving the existence of a…
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Revised Other Service Provider (OSP) Rules- Towards the Path of Liberalization
By Pritha Lahiri, a student of Institute of Law, Nirma University. Background: Recently, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has introduced amended guidelines[i] for the Other Service Providers (OSP). The Other Service Provider (OSP) is a Company registered under the Companies Act, 2013 or Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) that uses telecom resources provided by authorised Telecom Service Providers…
THE RIGHT TO REPAIR & PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE: NEW HORIZONS IN THE INDIAN IP LANDSCAPE
[By Sakshi Shrivastava, a student of Hidayatullah National Law University] Introduction While a faulty automobile will invariably lead you to a mechanic, a faulty smartphone will most often lead you to buy a new one. The added complexities of modern-day electronic devices have rendered them virtually incapable of having a repair infrastructure. Putting the innovative capital cost…
The Village Nobody Talked About: An International Law Analysis of Chinese Hamlet in Arunachal through the Prism of India
[By Rakshit Sehrawat, a student of Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, and Shreya Tripathi, a student of Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur] ‘Territorial Integrity’ is one of the most invoked phrases in the International Legal System. It is recognized as one of the linchpins of the International legal world, grounded on the fundamental concepts of…
WHATSAPP v. THE GOVERNMENT: Whose Line is it anyway?
[By Akshita Singh, a student of National Law University Odisha, Cuttack, and Achyut Tewari, a student of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur] General Overview The ongoing tussle between WhatsApp Inc. (hereinafter, “WhatsApp”) and the Government of India (hereinafter, “Government”) is one among a plethora of disputes involving a tech giant at one hand and a…
SELF-DRIVING CARS AND INDIA: A CALL FOR INCLUSIVITY UNDER THE INDIAN LEGAL POSITION
[By Tejas Sateesha Hinder and Ritik Kumar Rath. The authors are students of National Law Institute University, Bhopal] Introductory Remarks Recently, Tesla, the world’s most valuable car company, announced that they will enter the Indian market, and in January 2021, it registered itself with an office in Bengaluru. The concern as of now is not…
THE DARK SIDE OF THE PANDEMIC: INCREASING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
[By Aashi Shah. The author is a student of Pravin Gandhi College of Law .] While the world came to a halt due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, several women had to battle two pandemics at a time. The unanticipated lockdown made it difficult for women to escape households with violent environments. Furthermore, economic…
The UK Supreme Court’s Uber Decision & Status of Gig Workers
[By Aryan Roy. The author is a student of Gujarat National Law University.] “Parties cannot create something which has every feature of a rooster, but call it a duck and insist everybody else recognise it as a duck.” Justice Gray, Re Porter (1989) 34 IR 179, 184 With the growing digitalisation of the goods and…
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…