Author: Tech Law Forum NALSAR
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Are Smart Contracts a Smart Option?
This post has been authored by Harshit Goyal, currently in his 3rd year at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. In a well-reasoned piece, the author presents a simplified analysis of the feasibility of smart contracts. Smart contracts are a set of self-propelled contracts which use blockchain as a platform to complete the…
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Does Web Crawling Contravene the Indian Copyright Act, 1957?
[Ed Note: The following post has been authored by Shivang Agarwal, currently in his final year at NALSAR University of Law. In an interesting read, he analyzes the nature of web crawling actions and the kind of information collected to assess whether claims of copyright infringement may be brought against entities running such search engines.]…
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App Stores and Abuse of Dominance: The Case Against Apple (Part II)
[Ed Note: The following is the second part of a two-part post authored by Mohini Parghi, a third year student of NALSAR University of Law. This post has been authored as part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2019-20. Part I can be found here.] I. Introduction In the previous post, we saw how once…
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App Stores and Abuse of Dominance: The Case Against Apple (Part I)
[Ed Note: The following is the first part of a two-part post authored by Mohini Parghi, a third year student of NALSAR University of Law. This post has been authored as part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2019-20. Part II can be found here.] Introduction Recent developments have seen a significant amount of discussion…
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The Week That Was: 25/08/2017
In this second edition of The Week That Was, we find… The 9 Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India unanimously held that Privacy is a Fundamental Right under Part III of the Constitution of India and gave hope to the LGBT+ community, and may have implications for SEBI’s move to link with Aadhaar,…