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Metaverse Jurisdiction: Property Rights, Avatar Identity, Contract Enforcement, and Applicable Law in Virtual Environments

Introduction The metaverse, a term that encompass a spectrum of persistent, interactive, three-dimensional virtual environments ranging from gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite to blockchain-based virtual worlds like Decentraland and

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Online Gaming Regulation: GST Disputes, Skill vs. Chance Jurisprudence, and the MeitY Intermediary Framework for Gaming Platforms

Introduction India’s online gaming industry has undergone a transformation of both economic scale and regulatory complexity over the past five years. From a largely unregulated sector dominated by casual mobile

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Regulation of Generative AI Platforms: MeitY’s Evolving Advisory Framework and Whether Voluntary Compliance Is Enough

Introduction The emergence of generative artificial intelligence as a mainstream technology has confronted legal and regulatory systems with questions that existing frameworks were not designed to answer. Large language models

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Digital Public Infrastructure and Legal Architecture: UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar, and the Governance Framework for India Stack

Introduction India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) stack, popularly referred to as “India Stack,” represents one of the most ambitious and consequential experiments in state-led digital infrastructure in the world. Comprising

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Cybersecurity Due Diligence for Corporate Boards: Director Responsibility, CERT-In Obligations, and Post-Breach Liability

Introduction The question of corporate board responsibility for cybersecurity has evolved from a matter of technical management into one of the most pressing questions in contemporary corporate governance and IT

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Government’s Data Localisation Ambitions: Sectoral Mandates, Trade Treaty Tensions, and the DPDP Act’s Softer Approach

Introduction Data localisation, the regulatory requirement that data concerning a country’s residents be collected, processed, or stored within its national borders, has been one of the most contested questions in

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Platform Governance and Algorithmic Accountability: The Missing Legal Framework for Recommendation System Regulation in India

Introduction Every time a user opens YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, or any major social media platform in India, an algorithmic recommendation system determines what content they will see. These systems, trained

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Significant Social Media Intermediary Compliance: Traceability Requirements, Encryption Debates, and Platform Resistance

Introduction The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 introduced a category of regulated entity that did not previously exist in Indian law: the Significant Social

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IT Rules 2021 and the Fact-Check Unit: The Bombay High Court Judgment, Press Freedom Implications, and What Comes Next

Introduction Few regulatory interventions in the recent history of Indian media law have provoked as sustained and constitutionally significant a controversy as the 2023 amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary

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