“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Regarded as the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, through Neuromancer, Gibson introduced a world immersed i...

This volume highlights some significant developments from the month of August including the order by the Supreme Court of India on the Central Government Notification which omitted the approval requirement for ads of Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha Drugs...

Presenting Volume XXIV of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, your round-up of legal updates for the Media & Entertainment and Gaming industries. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” This iconic line from The Shaw...

Presenting Volume XXIII of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, your round-up of legal updates for the media & entertainment and gaming industries. Just as Spike Spiegel and his crew of bounty hunters attempted to navigate an intergalactic space fraught with u...

Presenting Volume XXII of INDUSLAW's The Recap, your round-up of legal updates for the media & entertainment and gaming industries. A key theme of some of the updates for this edition is the jurisprudence in India on obscenity. In 1964, the Suprem...

Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?” – this very famous question was posed by Greek philosopher Socrates, to his followers. In essence, he impressed on his followers to ask themselves whether what they speak is the ‘truth’, whether it is...

Welcome, legal hitchhikers, to another voyage through the dynamic frontiers of the Media and Entertainment (M&E) space. This month, we’re channelling our inner Arthur Dent as we navigate (yet again) the uncertainties around the retrospective Goods ...

Please find appended below Volume XIX of INDUSLAW’s ‘The Recap’, a periodic round-up of the latest developments in Media, Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW’s TMT Team. This edition covers legal updates ...

In 1865, when the automotive industry was still in its nascent stage, British Parliament enacted a law (which later came to be known as the ‘Red Flag Act’), which placed several unreasonable restrictions on self-propelled road vehicles. It also ...

‘Lights, Camera & Action!’ – an iconic expression in the realm of cinema, has also served as a cue for the members of the film crew at the commencement of every take. However, the extent to which each of these ‘takes’ feature in the final c...

The plausibility of past incidents to incite ripple effects on the future, as aptly addressed by Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 science-fiction film ‘Back to the Future’ closely resonates with the developments incumbent in our M&E and gaming industry. W...

Please find appended below Volume XVI of INDUSLAW's The Recap, a round-up of the latest developments in Media, Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW’s TMT Team. This edition covers legal updates from the months o...

Please find appended below Volume XV of INDUSLAW's The Recap, a round-up of the latest developments in Media, Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW's TMT Team. This edition covers legal updates from the months of J...

Please find appended below Volume XIII of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, a monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW’s TMT Team. This edition covers legal updates f...

Please find appended below Volume XII of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, a monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media, Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW’s TMT Team. This edition covers legal updates from th...

As our Prime Minister opined, world economies must not resist the “natural ow of globalisation”,and given globalisation is increasingly dependent on digitisation, our laws need to be nimble enough.

Please find appended below Volume XI of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, a monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW’s TMT Team.  This edition covers legal updates fr...

The Central Government on April 06, 2023, provided the much awaited and needed regulatory clarity to the online gaming industry by amending the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 to add provision...

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. - Ray Douglas Bradbury. Burning books, or rather its 21st century equivalent – banning content (whether justified or otherwise) seems to be t...

Emerson was a 19th century American philosopher, essayist, and abolitionist. In the 1830s, through his writings and speeches which criticised society for its unthinking conformity, he laid down the foundation of ‘transcendentalism’ – a literary...

Every two months, as our TMT team goes about handpicking updates that we want to discuss in the next volume of ‘The Recap’, one of the criteria that we keep in mind is whether a development is expected to have a long arc and more importantly, whe...

Please find appended below Volume VII of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, a bi-monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW’s TMT Team led by Partner Ranjana Adhikari. T...

Please find appended below Volume VI of INDUSLAW's The Recap, a bi-monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by members of INDUSLAW's TMT Team led by Partner Ranjana Adhikari. This ed...

Presenting Volume V of INDUSLAW's The Recap, a bi-monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by INDUSLAW's Mumbai TMT Team led by Partner Ranjana Adhikari. This edition covers legal upda...

Presenting Volume IV of INDUSLAW’s The Recap, a bi-monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment and Gaming laws from India, authored by INDUSLAW’s Mumbai TMT Team led by Partner Ranjana Adhikari. This edition covers legal ...

In a significant judgment for the online skill gaming industry, the Karnataka High Court on February 14, 2022 in the matter of All India Gaming Federation v. State of Karnataka and Anr. quashed key substantive provisions of the Karnataka (Police) Ame...

This edition is an eclectic mix of updates from the months of November & December 2021 and range from courtroom updates for skill gaming operators to crucial verdicts on copyright & trademark laws along with a snapshot of what kept our lawmakers busy...

INDUSLAW bring to you The Recap, a short yet extensive compilation of legal updates from India for the Media & Entertainment and Gaming industries so that while you do not miss out on developments that matter you are also free to ...

Presenting the inaugural edition of The Recap, a bi-monthly round-up of the latest developments in Media & Entertainment & Gaming laws from India, authored by Ranjana Adhikari, Shashi Shekhar Misra & Arjun Khanna. This edition covers some vital judic...

The Madras High Court recently quashed those amendments to the Tamil Nadu Gaming Act, 1930 which had imposed a blanket ban in Tamil Nadu on all games played for stakes (including online games and skill games). INDUSLAW's Ranjana Adhikari and Shashi S...

The Bombay High Court has passed an interim order staying Rule 9(1) & 9(3) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which mandated adherence to a prescribed 'Code of Ethics' by publishers of o...