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With great advancements and massive strides forward in technology, blockchain has become the latest beast that has been introduced to completely transform the nature and working of digital transactions and Decentralized Apps (“dapps”). The path of digitalization of the world has offered many rewards to people worldwide but, contrarily, it also has led to impediments …
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Public Domain: An Exception, Giving Due Credits: An Evident Fallacy In layperson term, public domain is a space that is easily accessible by and to everyone without having to go through any restrictions or guidelines. However, from a legal perspective, public domain refers to a space where there are no intellectual property rights available to …
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authored by Eeshan PandeyFounding and Joint Managing Partnereeshan@tytpartners.in After the recommendations of the 161st Rajya Sabha Parliamentary report, the Copyright Act was amended in the year 2012 in order to incorporate digital media framework keeping in view the international copyright regimes. As a matter of fact, Section 65A and 65B of the Indian Evidence Act …
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The web3 gaming industry is an exciting and rapidly growing sector that is using decentralized technologies and blockchain-based platforms to revolutionize the way that games are developed, distributed, and played. As the industry evolves, web3 gaming companies may need a variety of legal help to ensure that they are able to operate effectively and protect …
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There has been a lot of buzz word around NFT’s, smart contracts, and web3 etc. By this time most of us are aware that a smart contract is a digital contract that is self-executing and self-enforcing. To put it simply, smart contract is basically a computer program/code that automatically executes the terms of a contract …
WHAT IS PREVENTIVE DETENTION “Preventive Detention” is basically incarcerating a person without trial. An act, that is supposedly justified for non-punitive ends, and is often described as a preventive rather than a punitive measure. Taken on the basis of apprehension, it restricts the liberty of a person in anticipation of a commitment of crime. Preventive …
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In today's era of digitization, we speak of software eating the world, the Internet of Things and we classify "data" by declaring it Big. The market analyses shows that there are over 24 million online stores worldwide and e-commerce is estimated to contribute $4.5 trillion (14.1%) in retail sales by 2021, expected to rise to …
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According to Census 2011[1], 25 million of the country's 331 million dwellings are unoccupied. The state with the most vacant dwellings is Maharashtra which has around 3.7 million unoccupied residences followed by Uttar Pradesh which has 2.4 million vacant dwellings. The Census also shows that more than 95 percent of the dwellings assessed are in …
By Chandan Goswami & Eeshan Pandey The decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Internet and Mobile Association of India v. Reserve Bank of India[1]has brought the legal sector’s attention back to the distributed ledger technology that formed the very basis of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Even though the law to regulate cryptocurrencies is still in …
By Chandan Goswami & Aditi Gupta* A Start-up company means a private company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 or 2013 and recognized as a start-up under the notification issued by the DIPP, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Perceived as being capable of offering abundant opportunities for startups, India can be termed as the "posterchild" …
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