Tag: Information Technology
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Press Note 3 of 2016: ‘Old wine in a new bottle’?
[Posted by Satyajit Gupta] Press Note 3 of 2016 issued by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has had a mixed reception – e-commerce companies have largely remained silent, while some ‘brick and mortar’ retailers have welcomed the prohibition on influencing the price of goods amongst others. We believe that pending litigation and…
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FDI Reforms in E-Commerce: What Do They Entail?
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] 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…
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Financial Sector Legislation, Anti-terror Laws, Human Rights and the Indian Constitution
[Posted by Somasekhar Sundaresan] 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…
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Regulating the Crowdfunding Intermediary: The Funding Portals
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] [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,…
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Call for Papers: NUJS Law Review
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Cambria;} [The following is an announcement posted on behalf of the NUJS Law Review] The NUJS Law Review is pleased to invite contributions…
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PIL in Kerala to axe the vexed Intermediary Rules
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] (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…