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The Complexities of Level 3 Level 1 of our series explored the fragmented historical remnants of India’s gambling laws, and Level 2 mapped the expanding web of dark patterns and consumer protection. Level 3 brings us to the definitive boss fight. The era of regulatory ambiguity in Indian gaming ended with the enforcement of the…

Part 1: Introduction | Music Aligned with Current Copyright Law Part 2: Musical Traditions Not Aligned with Copyright Law | Mapping Indian Music Onto Copyright Law | Comparative Infringement Analyses | Conclusion * This essay was written during an internship supervised by Nandita Saikia and Sidharth Chopra at Saikrishna and Associates, India, in May–June…

Part 1: Introduction | Music Aligned with Current Copyright Law Part 2: Musical Traditions Not Aligned with Copyright Law | Mapping Indian Music Onto Copyright Law | Comparative Infringement Analyses | Conclusion * This essay was written during an internship supervised by Nandita Saikia and Sidharth Chopra at Saikrishna and Associates, India, in May–June…

The Indian Patent Office in April 2026 rejected a patent application naming an AI system- Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) as an inventor, citing inter alia that “AI-based non-human entity as an inventor is not permissible”, under the Patents Act. The decision comes after different fora in the US, EU, Australia…

This essay was written during a research internship supervised by Nandita Saikia and Sidharth Chopra at Saikrishna and Associates in March 2023. Music Copyrights in the Age of AI Khalil Gibran once apparently said: “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”[1] However, the use of…

In a landmark judgment, the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court has laid down a higher legal threshold to be applied for establishing a prima facie case of patent infringement in a quia timet action involving yet-to-be-launched products. While permitting Zydus to sell a biosimilar version of anti-cancer drug Nivolumab in India, in the…

Introduction: Continuing the Conversation In Part I of this series, we examined the recent surge in personality rights litigation in India and identified areas where judicial protection may be expanding beyond traditional boundaries. We discussed the importance of principle of proportionality, the requirement of  transformative use principle, and the need for differentiated analysis in evaluating…

Introduction Personality rights have emerged as one of the most debated topics in Indian legal circles over the past year, alongside artificial intelligence. What began as judicial efforts to protect celebrities from AI-generated deepfakes and fraudulent endorsements has evolved into broader protections that raise important questions about balancing celebrity rights with free expression, creativity, and commerce. At…

As India moves towards regulating synthetic and AI generated content online, the draft 2025 amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“ IT Rules 2021”), released on 22nd October 2025, this article raises and addresses a deeper, and possibly more sinister, constitutional question: can the executive rewrite legislative…

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules”), aimed at addressing the emerging challenge of synthetically generated and AI-manipulated content. The policy objective, i.e., improving transparency and accountability in the digital ecosystem, is entirely justified. However, the…