Tag: Google
-
‘Search Bias’ Under Indian Competition Law
The following post has been authored by Vishakha Singh Deshwal, an LLM candidate at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Studies (WBNUJS), Kolkata. Here she analyses an emerging issue at the intersection of technology and competition law. Every enterprise wants its Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to appear among the top links on search…
-
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.]…
-
Google’s Commercial Dominance – the Problem of a ‘Free’ Economy
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/oHcd72) Just yesterday, the internet became abuzz with the news that the European Parliament (‘EP’) is pressurising the European Union (‘EU’) to break Google Search away from the rest of its services (such as Android, et al). We’ve covered Google’s antitrust woes with the EU on the TLF earlier. According to this Techdirt article…
-
The Right to Be Forgotten – An Explanation
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/9RovZB) This is the first in a two-part post on the Right to be Forgotten. This post is part of our 101 series of posts, which seek to explain the issue at hand, and the next post shall address the issue and the debate surrounding it in more detail. In 2010, a Spanish citizen filed a complaint…
-
Google and Antitrust: A Series of Unfortunate Events
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/92t8FA) In its long series of antitrust woes, Google found itself facing an antitrust complaint filed by two Korean internet search sites a few years ago, accusing it of blocking third party search applications from the Android operating system, though it was later acquitted of the same. It was this complaint that later…