Category: Gaming Law
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The Taxed Stake: How PROGA 2025 Creates a Paradox for In-Game NFTs and Play-to-Earn Tokens
[Alok Singh and Satvik Kapoor are third-year law students at Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. In this piece, the authors interrogate the statutory tension between the newly enacted Online Gaming Act, 2025, which criminalises in-game NFTs and play-to-earn tokens as “other stakes”, and the Income Tax Act, 2025, which simultaneously taxes these…
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Between Tokens and Stakes: The Unintended Overreach of India’s Online Gaming Law
[This article has been authored by S.V. Ghopesh, a third-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Tamil Nadu National Law University. It examines the unintended regulatory overreach embedded in India’s Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, particularly the Act’s rigid three-part classification of e-sports, social games, and online money games. The article argues that…
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Betting on Balance: India’s Online Gaming Dilemma
[This article is authored by Priyanshu Danu, IV Year B.Sc. LL.B. (Cyber Security) student at the National Law Institute University. It examines India’s new law banning online money games, weighing its social safeguards against economic risks, and proposes a balanced regulatory framework drawing from global best practices.] The newly enacted Promotion and Regulation of Online…
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Promotion in Name, Prohibition in Practice: Reality of India’s Online Gaming Law
[This article is authored by Ananya Sonakiya and Anisha Tripathi, IV Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students at the National Law University Odisha. It critically examines the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, highlighting its constitutional infirmities, disproportionate restrictions, and economic drawbacks, and argues that the blanket prohibition is legally unsustainable while proposing a…