Tag: Information Technology
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FDI Reforms in E-Commerce: What Do They Entail?
In a post on this Blog earlier this month, Satyajit Gupta and Saurabh Sharma elaborately discussed the background to the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in the e-commerce sector. Ambiguities in the policy have not only given rise to uncertainties to players in the sector, but have also resulted in multiple rounds of litigation. As
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Financial Sector Legislation, Anti-terror Laws, Human Rights and the Indian Constitution
We all now know that the Supreme Court outlawed Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act in a recent order. I wrote about the court’s core findings in a column in the Mirror publications last Friday. I would have been remiss in not writing about the court’s rationale in the very same judgement, in refusing to
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Regulating the Crowdfunding Intermediary: The Funding Portals
[The following guest post is contributed by Nikunj Agarwal, who is a 3rd year student pursuing the B. A. LL.B. (Hons.) course at RML National Law University, Lucknow. He can be contacted at nikunj.rmlnlu@gmail.com. In this post, the author considers the regulation of a specific type of intermediary involved in crowdfunding, viz. the funding portals.
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Call for Papers: NUJS Law Review
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PIL in Kerala to axe the vexed Intermediary Rules
(The following post is contributed by Rohan Bagai) In the midst of the tempestuous brouhaha over internet censorship and filtering of online content while US corporations like Microsoft and Yahoo are being let off on account of scanty evidence of objectionable content in their court battles at Delhi, a public interest litigation (PIL) has been
