I. INTRODUCTION
Newspapers are a daily source of information and entertainment that had ceased physical distribution in many parts of the country amidst the lockdown. However, many publications conquered this adversity by making available their publications digitally.
M/s. Jagran Prakash Ltd. (“Plaintiff”) is the owner of physically distributed newspaper Dainik Jagran,...
By Hiral Chheda
UPDATE: ZEE ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISES LIMITED V. MUSICAL.LY, INC. & ORS.
In a recent development, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (“Zee”) has filed a suit in the High Court of Delhi against the popular Chinese video content and online sharing APP ‘Musical.ly, Inc.’ (“Musical.ly”). Zee has sought for a...
On 22nd October 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”) published the draft 2025 amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“ IT Rules 2021”), and invited stakeholder inputs / public comments thereon. These amendments (import of which is dealt with...
The Supreme Court in Just Rights For Children Alliance v. S. Harish has ruled that even viewing child pornographic material on the internet would constitute as an offence of storage or possession of child pornography, with an intention to transmit the same, under Section 15 of the Protection of...
“The Internet never sleeps; and the internet never forgets”. This statement appositely describes the presence of Internet in our lives and the characteristics that it portrays. Posting things on the Internet gives access of it to people all around the world in no time. This characteristic of Internet has...
About Author: The author is a B.A. LL. B graduate from ILS Law College, Pune (Batch: 2014-19) and currently practices intellectual property laws.
Introduction
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (“MIB”) has on 25th February 2021 published and notified the Information Technology...
We are pleased to bring to you our next guest post co-authored by Ramit Rana and Aman Sagar. Ramit is the founding Partner at STEP NEXT LEGAL, New Delhi. He is a Practising Advocate at the Delhi High Court, and other lower Courts of Delhi with over five years of...
The ongoing battle for being the most viewed Youtube Channel between T-Series and Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (a.k.a PewDiePie) have been making headlines. When T Series recently took over as the most viewed Youtube Channel, in a bid to outscore T-Series and regain its top position, PewDiePie uploaded two...
After an eight year-long copyright battle, Suneel Darshan, proprietor of the Shree Krishna International film production company, has won a copyright infringement suit against Google India and YouTube LLC. The District court of Gurgaon has awarded damages of Rs. 50,000 in favor of the production company and has restrained...
INTRODUCTION
Recently, Justice A.S. Chandurkar of the Bombay High Court delivered his final verdict on 20.09.2024 as the third referral judge over the issue of constitutionality of Rule 3(1)(b)(v) of the 2023 amendment of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 and held that the impugned...
