Case List: Hyperlinking & Framing
Find out what troubles you can invite by simply linking to a website and asking your website developer to provide for framing web content from other websites. The complete article will follow soon.
Case List: Metatagging and Trademark Infringement
Find out what Metatags are all about and how they can make you liable for manipulative Meta Tagging and Cyber Stuffing. Here is the list of all landmark cases in US and India which will be followed by a complete article soon by us.
Rules for Interpretation of Contracts
Learn the rules for interpretation of contracts in this series. This is the first part to be followed by two other posts.
Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd vs. West Bromwich Building Society
Five Principles for Interpretation of Contracts Facts There was a contract between a Norwegian and a German company for supply of 200 tonnes of haaksjoringskod. This substance could mean shark meat or whale meat. When the German company entered into the contract, the German company intended to import whale meat. However, the Norwegian company thought…
Should you pay Sales Tax on Photography?
Composite Contracts and Applicability of Sales Tax: Is ‘Dominant Intention Test’ still hold good?
Zaheer Mauritius Vs. Director of Income Tax
WHAT IS COMPULSORILY CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE (CCD)? A debenture indisputably creates and recognizes the existence of a debt and till it is discharged, either by payment or by conversion, the debenture would essentially represent a debt. A Compulsorily Convertible Debenture is a debt which is compulsorily liable to be discharged by conversion into equity. Any amount payable by the issuer…
RIGHT TO INTERNET IN INDIA: A LONG WAY TO GO
One of the most sought and used mode of communication is internet. A decade ago Internet connectivity may have been considered a luxury, but today it has become a necessity. It’s been several years since France has made access to Internet a human right. Finland has gone a step further and mandated access to a…
Open Source Software (OSS) – Are they protected?
All you need to know about Open Source Software and its protections under copyright laws.
Case List: Jurisdiction in Cyberspace / Conflict of Laws
CASE LIST Sarl Louis Feraud International vs. Viewfinder, Inc. No. 05-5927-CV, 2007 WL 1598057, 2nd Cir.(N.Y.) Compuserve, Inc. vs. Patterson, 89 F.3d 1257 (6th Cir. 1996) [Text] Zippo Manufacturing Co. vs. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., 952 F. Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa. 1997) [Text] Panavision International, L.P. vs. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9th Cir. 1998), aff’g 945…
Case List: LIABILITIES OF ISPs AND INTERMEDIARIES
FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Sony Corp. of America vs. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) [Full Text] Fonovisa, Inc. vs. Cherry Auctions, 76 F.3d 259 (9th Cir. 1996) [Full Text] CoStar Group, Inc. vs. LoopNet, Inc., 373 F.3d 544 (4th Cir. 2004) Viacom International, Inc. vs. YouTube, Inc. 17 U.S.C Sec 512(c) Gordon Roy Parker v. Google, Inc.,…
Case List: Cyber Defamation
INDIA SMC Pneumatics India Pvt. Ltd. v. Jogesh Kwatra, CS(OS) No. 1279/2001 (Delhi High Court, 2001) Avnish Bajaj vs. State, (2005) 3 CompLJ 364 Del (Delhi High Court, 2005) [Summary] Vyakti Vikas Kendra, India Public Charitable Trust Thr Trustee Mahesh Gupta & Ors vs. Jitender Bagga & Anr., CS(OS) No. 1340/2012 (Delhi High Court, 2012) [Summary] Google India Pvt. Ltd….
Satyabrata Ghose vs. Mugneeram Bangur & Co.
Citation: 1954 AIR 44 Facts Satyabrata (plaintiff), assignee of Bejoy Krishna Roy, sued defendant alongwith Bejoy as party defendant, for wrongfully repudiating the contract of developing the lands which were sold to the plaintiff, and asked for specific performance of the same. Defendant took the defence of frustration as the lands which needed to be developed…