A ROUND-UP OF MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT & GAMING INDUSTRIES’ LEGAL UPDATES

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 unforeseen threats in Shinichir? Watanabe’s anime Cowboy Bebop (1998), Indian regulators today are trying to address the novel challenges posed by technology and innovation. Whether it is taking measures to address deceptive online gambling ads and infringement of personality rights or SEBI’s clampdown on sharing of real time share prices with online fantasy stock trading platforms and other third-parties, the anime’s theme closely resonates with the underlying motif witnessed in the regulatory developments in the gaming and media & entertainment sector in the month of May. Against this backdrop, INDUSLAW’s Ranjana Adhikari, Sana Khan, Aditya G and Prateek Joinwal you the twenty third edition of the Recap, outlining some insightful developments in the media & entertainment and gaming space from May 01, 2024, to May 31, 2024.