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...
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...
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...
This is not the first time that we’ve come across the dark side of social media but this is most certainly one that has shook us to the core. For those of you unaware of what I am talking about, there was a group on Instagram by the name...
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...
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...
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...
Karnatik music vocalist TM Krishna has filed a petition before the Madras High Court challenging the constitutionality of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules, 2021/ Impugned Rules”) seeking a declaration that the IT Rules, 2021 is ultra vires both the Constitution...
By Anushka Verma
Recently, an FIR was filed against ShareChat, an application owned by Mohalla Tech for an alleged copyright violation. The FIR was lodged in Bengaluru on the basis of a complaint made by a music production company, Lahari Recording. The complainant is the owner of copyright over various...
