The following post is by Madhulika Srikumar, a fourth year student at GNLU, Gandhinagar. She has an avid interest in the debate on ownership of Internet, Internet security and freedoms, and has worked earlier on issues relating to ICANN and Internet Jurisdiction. She brings us an interesting commentary on the US withdrawl from ICANN, and how it may affect Internet…
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Editor's Picks (12/10/14)
1. Why the Trolls Will Always Win, by Kathy Sierra, Wired. 2. Online Native Ads Are Held To Higher Standards Than Those On TV, by Danielle Wiley TechCrunch. 3. It’s now legal to make backups of movies, music, and e-books in the UK, by Megan Geuss, ARSTechnica. 4. Georgetown law professor says Apple may now be a regulated financial institution,…
TechLawForum@NALSAR noted on SpicyIP!
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the TechLawForum@NALSAR Blog has found mention on SpicyIP in its list of “New Online IPR/Media/Tech Resources – For Students, Teachers and Researchers“! The post specifically notes the 101s and the Commons, and also notes the wonderful Teaching and Learning Resources initiative of the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG,…
Law Commission Media Law Consultation – Panel V, Social Media
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/e5wZ3t) The following is a post by Aman Gupta, a fourth year student at NUJS, covering the fifth panel of the Law Commission’s Media Law Consultation. Aman is currently the Director of the NUJS Society of International Law and Policy, and his areas of interest include Sports Law and Media Law. This post brings forward some…
Editors' Picks
The following are some of the interesting articles that our editors have found this week on the Internet. 1. The Solace of Oblivion, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker. 2. The Soul of the Censor, Robert Darnton, the New York Review of Books. 3. The Hidden World of Facebook ‘Like Farms’, MIT Technology Review. 4. Pirate Favorites…
Law Commission Media Law Consultation – Panel I, Self Regulation v. Statutory Regulation
(Image Source: https://flic.kr/p/hzrA2W) The following is a post by Shashank Singh, a third year student at NUJS, covering the first panel of the Law Commission’s ongoing Media Law Consultation, Self-Regulation v. Structural Regulation. Shashank currently serves as Associate Editor for the NUJS Law Review, and his areas of interest include Constitutional Law, Media Law and IPR. The Law…
Of Facebook and Privacy – Part I: The Constitutional and Tortuous Facets
(Image Source: opensource.com, https://flic.kr/p/84VZAr) The following post by Samyak Sibasish is the first in a series of posts analysing the effects of Social Media, specifically Facebook, on Privacy. This post focuses on the constitutional and tortuous dimensions of the issue, while the next one will focus on the contractual aspects of it. Samyak is a 3rd year…
Data Retention Protocols: A Critical Appraisal of the Telecom Surveillance Apparatus in India and Abroad (Part II)
The second post in the two-part series on Data Retention laws in India and abroad, by Balaji Subramanian. The first part can be found here. In Foreign Lands: US and the EU Earlier, I’ve given a broad picture of the data retention scenario in India. Now, I attempt to draw a comparison between India and…
Data Retention Protocols: A Critical Appraisal of the Telecom Surveillance Apparatus in India and Abroad (Part I)
The following is the first in a two-post series by Balaji Subramanian on Data Retention, a second-year student at NALSAR. Balaji is quite interested in Technology and Cyber Law, and has worked on issues ranging from Cyber Forensics to Data Retention., interning with CIPRA at NLSIU and Tanikella Rastogi Associates on related issues. Descriptively, data retention refers to the gathering…
Cross Media Ownership in India: Cause for Concern?
The following post is by Shashank Atreya, a student of School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore. He is a founding member of the Committee on Public Policy and Governance, School of Law, Christ University, and has headed research panels drafting suggestions to the Parliament Standing Committee and Law Commission. Shashank is a Media Law enthusiast, and…