Intermediary Liability
24 articles tagged with "Intermediary Liability".
The Compliance Clock is Ticking: Supreme Court Refuses to Stay DPDP Act While Govt 'Frankensteins' AI Regulation
The End of the Waiting Game for Tech Lawyers For the better part of two years, a dangerous complacency had settled over India’s corporate legal departments. The prevailing wisdom was that the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, bogged ...
The Tech Law Paradox: Delhi HC Gives AI a 'Fair Dealing' Pass While the DPDP Act Faces Constitutional Fire
A Schizophrenic Approach to Digital Regulation If the last few months of Indian technology and intellectual property law have proven anything, it is that we are operating in a state of regulatory schizophrenia. On one hand, the State is tightening th...
Stop Waiting for an AI Act: India’s "Frankenstein" Tech Regulation is Already Here (and the Clock is Ticking)
The Myth of the Upcoming AI Law For the past three years, the Indian tech bar has been holding its breath, waiting for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to drop a bespoke Artificial Intelligence Act. Lawyers have been adv...
Retrofitting the Law: Delhi HC’s AI "Fair Dealing" Call and the 3-Hour Takedown Rule Upend Indian Tech Practice
For technology and intellectual property lawyers in India, the writing on the wall for 2026 is unmistakably clear: stop waiting for a bespoke Artificial Intelligence Act. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has firmly signa...
The DPDP Act is Swallowing Indian Tech Law: Why IP and Privacy Are Now the Same Practice Area
The Illusion of a Dedicated AI Law is Dead For the last three years, Indian tech lawyers and policy wonks have been holding their breath, waiting for a bespoke Artificial Intelligence Act to drop from the legislative heavens. It is time to exhale and...
The Privacy Paradox: Supreme Court’s DPDP-RTI Stance and the Draconian 3-Hour AI Takedown Rule
A Year of Reckoning for Digital Rights and Intermediary Liability If the first quarter of 2026 is any indicator, the Indian technology and privacy law landscape is undergoing a radical, state-centric metamorphosis. For practicing tech lawyers and con...
The DPDP Act Paradox: Killing the RTI While Moonlighting as India’s Default AI Law
For Indian technology and public law practitioners, the landscape of digital governance has fundamentally shifted as of July 2026. The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 is no longer just a looming compliance hurdle—it is fully operati...
The DPDP Era Begins: RTI in the Crosshairs and the Government’s Risky "Shoehorn" Approach to AI Governance
For Indian technology and IP practitioners, July 2026 will be remembered as the month the theoretical finally gave way to the operational—and the litigious. Over two years after receiving presidential assent, the Centre has finally notified the admin...
Legislative Jugaad: Why India’s "No New AI Law" Stance Creates a Compliance Minefield for Tech Lawyers
The Union Government has finally shown its hand on artificial intelligence, and the strategy is clear: innovation over regulation . By officially rejecting a bespoke AI regulatory framework this July 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) h...
The Frankenstein Approach to AI: How the ‘No New AI Law’ Stance and the DPDP-RTI Clash Will Dictate Tech Practice in 2026
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has officially shown its hand for the future of artificial intelligence in India, and it is a litigator's dream disguised as a compliance nightmare. By confirming that the Centre will avo...
Shoehorning AI into Existing Laws: Why India’s 2026 Tech Strategy is a Litigator’s Goldmine
The Union Government has finally shown its hand on Artificial Intelligence regulation, and the verdict is in: there won't be one. In a decisive move in mid-2026, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) announced its refusal to draft a bespoke AI l...
Privacy Shield or Transparency Guillotine? The Supreme Court Takes Aim at Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act
The long-awaited Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, have finally been notified, pulling India’s data protection regime out of its nine-month suspended animation. But while corporate India scrambles to update its consent architecture...
The Privacy Paradox: Supreme Court Steps In as the DPDP Act Threatens to Consume the RTI Act
June 2026 has delivered the constitutional showdown that privacy advocates and transparency activists have been dreading for three years. The Supreme Court has finally referred the constitutional challenges against the Digital Personal Data Protectio...
The DPDP Act Hits a Constitution Bench While Doubling as India's Defacto AI Law: What Tech Lawyers Need to Know Now
The Constitutional Showdown: Privacy vs. Transparency In a move that promises to define India’s digital jurisprudence for a generation, the Supreme Court has referred the constitutional challenges against the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) A...
The “No AI Act” Strategy: How Notified DPDP Rules and Stealth IT Amendments Just Rewrote India’s Tech Practice
The Illusion of the Indian AI Act For the past two years, Indian tech lawyers and corporate counsels have been bracing for a monolithic, EU-style Artificial Intelligence Act. You can stop waiting. The regulatory roadmap for 2026 is now explicitly cle...
No Standalone AI Law: Why India’s Plan to Regulate AI via the DPDP Act and Existing IP Laws is a Wake-Up Call for Practitioners
Stop waiting for the Great Indian AI Act. It isn’t happening anytime soon, and frankly, that changes everything about how tech and IP lawyers need to advise their clients today. In a watershed policy signal, the Ministry of Electronics and Informatio...
The Great AI Punt: Why Shoehorning Generative Tech into the DPDP Act and Legacy IP Laws is a Litigation Timebomb
For India’s technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) lawyers, the regulatory holding pattern has finally broken. In a dual development that will define digital compliance for the next decade, the Centre has officially notified the administrati...
Piercing the Privacy Shield: How the Delhi High Court Rescued IP Litigation from the DPDP Act
The Collision of IP Law and Data Privacy For the past year, Indian intellectual property litigators have been staring down the barrel of a data privacy nightmare. As the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act framework gained momentum, Domain Na...
The Death of the Passive Intermediary: Delhi HC Mandates Proactive Domain Blocking as DPDP and IT Rules Tighten the Noose
The Era of "Safe Harbor" is Effectively Over For years, Indian IP litigators have banged their heads against the same digital wall: a client’s trademark is hijacked by a fraudulent domain, you file a routine Ashok Kumar (John Doe) suit, and the Domai...
The End of Easy WHOIS: Delhi High Court Forces IP Litigators to Navigate the DPDP Maze to Unmask Cyber-Squatters
The Intersecting Collision of IP Enforcement and Data Privacy For the better part of a decade, the playbook for Indian IP litigators dealing with rogue websites, counterfeiters, and phishing scams has been comfortably predictable. You draft a suit fo...
The 3-Hour Takedown and the AI Cop-Out: Navigating India’s Draconian IT Rules and New DPDP Mandates
If you were holding your breath for a comprehensive, bespoke Artificial Intelligence Act in India, you can finally exhale. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has made its position unequivocally clear: there will be no stan...
The "AI Act" Mirage: Why MeitY’s Pivot to DPDP and IT Rules Changes Everything for Tech Lawyers
For the last three years, the Indian tech-law fraternity has been waiting with bated breath for a bespoke, omnibus Artificial Intelligence Act. We can finally stop holding our breath. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has...
The "No New AI Law" Illusion: How DPDP, IP, and the IT Rules Just Became India's De Facto AI Framework
The Myth of the Indian AI Act For the past few years, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) desks across Indian law firms have been bracing for a sweeping, European-style artificial intelligence statute. We can now officially stop holding o...
The Phantom AI Act: Why MeitY’s Reliance on DPDP and the 2026 IT Rules is a Wake-Up Call for Tech Lawyers
The Death of the Indian AI Act For the last three years, Indian tech lawyers and policy wonks have been waiting for a monolithic, EU-style Artificial Intelligence Act to drop from the legislative heavens. This week, the Ministry of Electronics and IT...
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