Clichés though at the cost of nuance, are often accurate in their generality. In law no other cliché is truer than history repeating itself. Legal disputes inevitable rely on the predictability of past decisions being beautifully captured in the Latin phrase Stare Decisis. Quite simply…
One of the confirmations that litigation provides is that the black letter of the law is often grey. Even when clear legal boundaries are set, attempts are made to circumvent it.
This is visible in a recent case seeking to protect news under copyright law…
The Delhi University copyright case (University of Oxford v. Rameshwari Photocopy Services CS(OS) 2439/2012) demonstrates that litigation’s involving issues of intellectual property go beyond mere private adjudications and involve larger issues of access to knowledge and public…
This is a long post as it extracts the legal provisions, if you are just interested in the analysis, please skip to the end.
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Day before yesterday night I was happy to see my name in the Hindu in connection with a post on this blog. The post was on the lingering concerns with the proposed regulation of user generated content on social networking websites.
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