After being unanimously passed by the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 has now received the President’s assent on December 24, 2023.

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (“CCPA”) has notified the Guidelines for Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns, 2023 (“Guidelines”) in the Official Gazette on November 30, 2023. These Guidelines precedes the draft Guidelines issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs in September 2023.

After five years, India finally has a comprehensive legal structure in place to govern the handling of its citizens’ personal data. On August 11, 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (“DPDP Act”) received the President’s assent bringing an end to the variability that existed in the realm of data protection in India.

The legal issue was whether the provision of a keyword by an advertiser which is identical to a registered trademark of a third-party amounts to an infringement within the meaning of the Trademarks Act.

While it took India nearly sixty years to become a trillion dollar economy, it has been forecasted that it may cross five trillion mark by the year 2029 and the online gaming industry is expected to be one of the significant contributors thereto.

The Hon’ble Madras High Court in its recent decision has varied the rate of 2% Net Advertising Revenue (NAR) as determined by the Copyright Board in 2010 in the compulsory licence proceedings.

The Hon’ble Madras High Court in its recent decision has varied the rate of 2% Net Advertising Revenue (NAR) as determined by the Copyright Board in 2010 in the compulsory licence proceedings.

Recently, the Hon’ble Bombay High Court, in the matter of Indian Performing Rights Society Limited vs. Music Broadcast Limited[1], while granting interim reliefs in favour of Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS), decided the lis as to whether a broadcasting organisation needs a separate licence for underlying literary and musical compositions incorporated within a sound recording (underlying works) when a sound recording is broadcast.

Certain brands build an association with certain quality of goods/services. The use of similar brands for unrelated goods while may not cause confusion as to the source may however lead to dilution of the brand.

With the advent of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“Rules”) as updated by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“Meity”) on April 6, 2023