[This article is authored by Tanmay Malik, a 4th year student at NALSAR University, Hyderabad. It analyses if the restrictions on paid news over search engines is violative of the fair use doctrine under the copyright law.] News is a free information of the events around us. With the rise in enmeshing and expanse…
Category: Censorship
BBC Documentary Ban: Yet Another Example of the Government’s Abuse of its Emergency Powers
[This post by Paras Khetan and Anish Gupta, 2nd year students at NLSIU, Bangalore, explains how the order blocking the BBC Documentary is violative of the IT Act and the rules thereunder. It also brings forth the larger problem of constant abuse of the government’s emergency powers under the IT Rules.] Introduction Recently, the government…
“Free Speech is not Free Reach”: A Foray into Shadow-Banning
[This post has been authored by Riya Sharma and Atulit Raj, second-year students at the Institute of Law, Nirma University.] Introduction In the modern age, social media has turned into an essential platform for public discourse. A nation flourishes when the voices from the crowd are not only heard but listened to. These voices, which…
IT AMENDMENT RULES 2022: An Analysis of What’s Changed
[This post is authored by Sohina Pawah, a second-year student at the NALSAR University of Law, who is also an Editor for the TLF] INTRODUCTION Back in June 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MeitY”) had first released the proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 19
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Harsh Jain and Harshita Lilani put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Facebook Oversight Board picks the first batch of cases for review, adds additional matter from India Facebook’s Oversight Board (OSB), an independent body set up to review…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 15
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. PIL filed seeking identities of content moderation officers Former RSS ideologue K N Govindacharya filed a public-interest litigation in the High Court of Delhi to prompt Google,…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 14
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. India bans 59 Chinese Apps including Tik-Tok The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced in a press release on 29th June that it had invoked its…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 12
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Australian Court rules that media companies are liable for defamatory user comments The Court of Appeal Supreme Court, New South Wales, made the ruling in the…
Metadata by TLF: Issue 11
Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Private firm blocked from buying “.org” domain The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the internet naming system, decided on 30 April…
Right to access Internet: An end to oppressive Internet shutdowns?
[This post has been authored by Mohd Rameez Raza (Faculty of Law, Integral University, Lucknow) and Raj Shekhar (NUSRL, Ranchi).] The Internet is one of the most powerful instruments of the 21st century for increasing transparency in day to day working, access to information, and most important facilitating active citizen participation in building strong democratic…