Seminar on Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Laws

2011
Apar Gupta
This handout contains the course timings and the readings. For more information how to approach the readings, kindly refer to the class policy which has been put up on the google group. Kindly note that weblinks to all the readings have been provided to facilitate access. For all queries, comments and feedback use the google group on http://bit.ly/q2O2Po you can also directly email the group on nlu-seminar@googlegroups.com. When all else fails email me.

National Law University, Delhi mail@apargupta.com > 9/9/2011

CLASS 1 11th September (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break JURISDICTION The concept jurisdiction 1) book of 8) JCB India v. I.P. Address (Joinder of Causes) http://bit.ly/pvVpNH 9) Satellite Television Asian v. Deputy Commissioner (Tax) http://bit.ly/qeCu14 10) (India Tv) Independent News ... vs India Broadcast Live LLC (Trademarks) http://bit.ly/rlv09Y
11)

16) Delhi Press Patra Prakashan v. Kishorendu Gupta http://bit.ly/oRckMD

Pages 17-19 of the

2) Pages 272 280 of the book 3) Pages 445-447 of the Parliamentary Committees report paras 18-30 Extra-territorial jurisdiction 4) Casio India v. Ashita Tele Systems (Paragraph 6) http://bit.ly/qpqGSg 5) Banyan Tree Holdings v. A. Murali Krishna Reddy http://bit.ly/oO0fby 6) Sholay Media Entrtainment & Anr vs Yogesh Patel http://bit.ly/qOrKmA Substantive jurisdiction 7) Super Cassetes Industries Ltd. vs Myspace Inc. (Paras 55-58) http://bit.ly/nu4eeQ

Frank Finn Management vs Mr Subhash Motwani http://bit.ly/n9MOBo observe

Failure to jurisdiction

12) Rohit Kochar v. Legally India (Appeal No. 7/2011) http://bit.ly/pmbQ6G http://bit.ly/qvjKQX Table of Cyber Appellate Tribunal Decisions http://scr.bi/pHBt4b
13)

IIPM's Rs500million lawsuit http://bit.ly/qpzPcB

14)

The Supreme Court stays IIPM http://bit.ly/nbD5pQ

15)

CLASS 2 18th September (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break COPYRIGHT I Historical background
1) Bleistein v. Donaldson

6) Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa

12)

(Optional) http://bit.ly/n0Uukp Disproportionate responses

7) John Doe Orders and

Diljeet Titus v. Mr. Alfred A. Adebare (Optional) http://bit.ly/pmZcpq

Internet (Required)

Outages

13) Himalaya Company vs (Optional)

Drug Sumit

(Optional) http://bit.ly/pErYbL
8) 2) Gladwell,

http://bit.ly/qsJZux

http://bit.ly/oFTTdG

Creation Myth (Required) http://nyr.kr/oFQiVd

the great singham filesharing block (Required) http://bit.ly/pUYAjA

14) Eastern Book Company vs Navin J. Desai (Required) http://bit.ly/oaM6ie Renting and reselling 15) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ... vs Mr. Santosh V.G (Optional) http://bit.ly/oSSCzB

9) Vigilante 3) Apple Computer, Inc.

v. Microsoft (Required)

Corp.

Justice, Online and in Ishtyle (Required) http://bit.ly/q2he7F

Database rights 10) Feist v. Rural Telephone (Required) http://bit.ly/rnarbp

http://bit.ly/qacuXE

4) Lotus

v. (Optional)

Borland

16) John Wiley vs Prabhat Kumar (Optional) http://bit.ly/rgUfyp

http://bit.ly/oukBiA Theories of infringement (Required) http://bit.ly/rdq4AT copyright

11)

Burlington Home vs Rajnish Chibber (Optional) http://bit.ly/pzUyHT

5) Perfect 10, v. Google

CLASS 3 18th September (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break COPYRIGHT II Protecting ideas working in teams and

Open source and culture

licensing

15. Who am I to you?

7. The Open Source

http://bit.ly/qSSVe 5
16. Alok Kejriwal,

Definition http://bit.ly/pTZ1dI
8. List

Open Source Licenses http://bit.ly/npd6J W free software? http://bit.ly/otZaCB

of

Have you partnered with thieves? http://bit.ly/o01hZT

1. Connectu v. Mark

Zuckerberg http://bit.ly/o9PKX M
2. Astor Technologies

9. Stallman, What is

10. The GNU General

vs L.B.Thiagarajanhtt p://bit.ly/p96K0o
3. American Express

Public License http://bit.ly/pUYOi 6

11. A Quick Guide to

vs Priya Puri http://bit.ly/nEIyzi Licensing assignments

4. Onyx

GPLv3 http://bit.ly/pIBMT X
12. Two Bits, Chapter

and

6 http://bit.ly/qipvg3 Dynamics and statics

13. UMG Recordings,

Musicabsolute.Co m v. Yash Raj Films http://bit.ly/phJmIF

5. Pvr

v. Studio 18 http://bit.ly/o9WE N2 Network v. Super Cassettes http://bit.ly/qp3Jit

Pictures

v. MP3. Com http://bit.ly/qrrEw m

14. Are Google Music

6. Entertainment

and Amazon Cloud Player illegal? http://bit.ly/p8j7bX

CLASS 4 25th September (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break LINKING AND TRADEMARKS scraping information
1) ILTB Post : Petronet

Case No. D2009-0646 http://bit.ly/rpevQJ

8) Tata Sons Limited v.

International, http://bit.ly/p6kvsk

TATA Telecom Case No. D2009-0671 http://bit.ly/ppcRIM 9) Makemytrip v. Sons Compliant http://bit.ly/r2OXbj Stay http://bit.ly/qt2m0t
10)

Tata

Two Unpleaded Torts http://bit.ly/pBniW7

2) Petronet Lng Ltd vs

Indian Petro http://bit.ly/qsofFD where copyright ends

3) Mattel, Inc. And Ors vs

Beiersdorf A.G vs Ajay Sukhwani http://bit.ly/pUlZOp

Ecommerce Issues
11)

Mr. Jayant Agarwalla http://bit.ly/qdzbeK

4) Warner

Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay Inc http://bit.ly/q3cYMg Gucci v. Frontline http://bit.ly/n0hT3Y Gieco v.Google, http://bit.ly/pKbIzL Rescuecom v. Google http://bit.ly/pZxmN4 Cosmin Info v. Google http://bit.ly/ppn7ZU

Bros. Entertainment Inc. vs Harinder Kohli http://bit.ly/pAyPvB

12)

13)

cybersquatting
5) Rediff Communication

14)

Limited vs Cyberbooth http://bit.ly/pqjCVE

6) Mr. Arun Jaitley vs

15)

Network Solutions http://bit.ly/nQA9F1 URDP Process

7) Tata

Parody in the Digital Age v.

16)

Sons Ltd Oktatabyebye.com

Tata Sons Limited vs Greenpeace

CLASS 5 9th October (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY The Basics
1) Daniel

procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011 http://bit.ly/qIITCu 8) On The Indian Governments Clarification On IT Rules And Personal Data http://bit.ly/pZGAC3 9) Clarifying bad law http://bit.ly/oYK3sW Reality Television 10) the legal limits of reality television http://bit.ly/oqvKfA 11) The legal limits of reality television | Part 2: http://bit.ly/q5qRCw
12)

16) Amar Singh Vs. Union Of India http://bit.ly/nTsge2 (interim order) http://bit.ly/oEZtX9 (judgment) 17) who takes the blame for a forged tap order ? http://bit.ly/r1gvm1 Sate Actors: Aspects
18)

Other

Solove, The Taxonomy of Privacy http://bit.ly/oGGKii Online Privacy in India http://bit.ly/pNiT5A

2) Apar Gupta, Balancing

National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010 available at http://bit.ly/oU6Zp4 Graham Greenleaf, Indias national ID system: http://bit.ly/pS2Lm4

Private Actors: Internet

3) The Beast File: Google

19)

http://bit.ly/n804Lz
4) Eben Moglen, Freedom

in the Cloud, http://bit.ly/r2wikp

5) Facebook.com, Terms

Channel V, Axe Your Ex, Episode 1, available at http://bit.ly/ntjOnD

20) Analysis of the Privacy Bill, 2011 http://bit.ly/pxQdoV

of Service Agreement, http://on.fb.me/rbm63 W

6) The

13) Whos the Boss? http://bit.ly/pgeGoR State Actors: Telephone Tapping

14)

Rumpus, Conversations About the Internet http://bit.ly/pqLB5Z

Privacy Rules 7) Information Technology (Reasonable practices

NDTV, Is phone tapping India's worst kept secret? http://bit.ly/oyH4ur

security and

15) PUCL v. Union of India http://bit.ly/puoWy9

CLASS 6 16th October (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY The Basics 1) Ronald Mann, The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability http://bit.ly/pInwwO
2) Apar

7) Amlan Mohants Post on SPICY IP, http://bit.ly/nkog2K

8) Google India v. Visaka

Agencies http://bit.ly/o1TUdf 9) Super Cassetes Industries Ltd. vs Myspace Inc. http://bit.ly/rhIwD8 10) Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011. http://bit.ly/qIITCu Recent Precedent
11)

Gupta, Intermediary Liability in India : From Troubled Waters to Safe Harbours http://bit.ly/q55R25

Foreign

The Application 3) Sec. 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 http://bit.ly/ohswCe

4) Avnish Bajaj v. NCT

Cyberlawcases Blog, Case background of Viacom v. Youtube available http://bit.ly/pJsbQn Bryan V. Swatt, perfect 10 v. visa, http://bit.ly/pBd2lw

12)

Delhi (2004) http://bit.ly/nsgaJW 5) Avnish Bajaj v. State (2008) http://bit.ly/oKjfJ1 6) Aditya Gupta, The Scope of Online Service Providers Liability http://bit.ly/roydDb

CLASS 7 23rd October (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break Electronic Signatures 1) Pages 51 till 71 of the Book 2) Pages 111 till 133 Electronic Contracts 3) Pages 96 108 of the Book 4) Abhishek Krishnan - E-Contracts 5) Trimex International Fze Ltd.Dubai Vs. Vedanta Aluminium http://bit.ly/mOBQhJ 6) Hindalco Industries Ltd vs Ess Dee Aluminium Limited http://bit.ly/mTNvVa Evidentiary Presumption
7) Societe Des

Pvt. Ltd. http://bit.ly/nHMha 2

9) Autodesk, Inc. v.

Mr. Prashant Deshmukh http://bit.ly/qaNW6 7

Products Nestle S.A. vs Essar Industries http://bit.ly/rg6fGS

8) Ark Shipping Co.

Ltd. V. Grt Shipmanagement

CLASS 8 30th October (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break COMPETITION LAW AND THE INTERNET The Basics
1) Rich Green field, The

6) Facebook Credits http://bit.ly/pKvnUU 7) Google Adwords http://bit.ly/mYGmv9 8) Apple Iphone http://zd.net/pqu5gf

Net Neutrality Debate: The Basics available at http://bit.ly/mW9Vs4

2) Wu and Yoo, Keeping

the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo Debate available at http://bit.ly/qhCDnr Its Happening in India
3) Medianama,

MTS MBlaze, Tata Docomo And The Neutrality Of Wireless Internet Access In India available at http://bit.ly/nYQNGQ

4) Digital

Inspiration, YouTube Bonanza for Airtel Users in India http://bit.ly/q14heF Complaints before the CCI
5) Subhashish

Gupta, Competition Policy in Telecommunications in India http://bit.ly/pKpYUH

CLASS 9 6th November (Sunday) 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break FREE SPEECH From Shiv NDTV Sena to

5) Shivam

Vij, the Discreet Charms of the Nanny State http://bit.ly/pLmdgJ

12)

6) Ministerial Order on Blocking of Websites, Dated 7th July, 2003 http://bit.ly/p1hMuf

7) The

Infromation Technology (Procedures and Safegaurds for Blocking of Access Information by Public) Rules, 2009 http://bit.ly/qBDum E

1) Gauravnomics,

Shiv Senas Orkut Campaign: The Limits to Freedom of Expression http://bit.ly/r3A8r7 NDTV's Assault on Free Speech http://bit.ly/nCCyy0

Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009 http://bit.ly/oN8WGx the utilitarian critique of E2 Labs v. Zone-H available at http://bit.ly/ov1ZUP Scriptor http://www.iltb.net/201 1/06/caveat-scriptor/

8) ILTB,

2) The National Interest,

9) Caveat

Traditional Censorship 3) why book banning is better than website blocking http://www.iltb.net/201 1/03/why-bookbanning-is-better-thanwebsite-blocking/ 4) 199 Take-Down Requests, 1 Court Order http://www.iltb.net/201 1/08/199-take-downrequests-1-court-order/ Blocking Websites

Keyword Filtering 10) Report of the Committee appointed by the Bombay High Court http://www.cyquator.co m/Html/vol1.pdf 11) Janhit Manch v. Union of India http://barandbench.com /userfiles/files/File/janh it_manch_uoi_porno.p df Regulations

Class 10 and 11 8:30 AM to 12:30 AM 15 minute break Class Presentations

CLASSES 10 and 11 13th and 20th November (Sunday)