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Introduction : Financial technology businesses increasingly derive their competitive advantage from information. A digital lender may use a proprietary credit-scoring model, a payments platform may develop fraud-detection systems around transactional patterns, and an account-based service may rely on sophisticated customer segmentation. Alongside these technologies sits personal data belonging to borrowers, account holders and users. The same technological ecosystem can there

Introduction : A company in financial distress that is already attempting to restructure its debts through a scheme of arrangement, might believe it is already taking action, while creditors may not be willing to wait for the restructuring process to conclude. The company pursuing a scheme might expect that because restructuring proceedings are already before a court, parallel insolvency proceedings should not be allowed to disrupt them. But can a creditor invoke IBC on an on

Introduction : The essay explores the myriad legal conundrums arising from the gradual adoption of Artificial Intelligence in public, professional, and creative spheres to conceive of various categories of Intellectual property. The essay re-iterates quintessential intellectual quandaries regarding ownership rights in Generative AI’s training models and algorithms, and whether works created using AI would be eligible under cyber law and international law to gain copyright pro

Introduction : Recently, the Carnatic region was caught in a strife between its Multiplex Association and the Producer’s Council. The discord was rooted in a question asked by filmmakers across the country: “Can Producers push for Over-The-Top (OTT) Releases within four weeks of a theatrical release, or must there be a mandatory eight-week window?” If so, “What rights do Film Exhibitors and Producers have?” The traditional film was shot and released in theatres, where it cel

Introduction : Now, businesses such as retailers, hotels, landlords, and airlines use advanced revenue-management systems. These include tools that analyse market information to suggest recommendations or automatically set the prices. When the same system is used by several market players, a question arises: Should one think about these businesses as having coordinated their actions/action? The competition law allows firms to compare their prices with those of their competito

Introduction : In the last decade, the footballing world has stood strong against racism. FIFA and UEFA joining hands to protect players from discrimination through their ‘No Racism’ and ‘Say No to Racism’ campaigns, respectively, have shaped the laws of the game to suppress racism. Continuing its commitment, FIFA and IFAB brought a new law in the game in which players can be red-carded for concealing their speech by covering their mouths. This prevents discriminatory remark

Introduction : The intersection of arbitration and insolvency presents a complex area of commercial dispute in the midst of financial distress. Arbitration is founded on the parties agreement to have their dispute resolved through adjudicatory mechanism, while insolvency proceedings operate through collective framework addressing financial distress of a corporate body. The commencement of insolvency proceedings can alter how contractual disputes are pursued. This becomes sign

Introduction : As a child, I was always fond of games that involved makeup, fashion, cleanliness, or cooking. I enjoyed them so much that I started downloading these apps when I was just 12–13 years old. At that age, I often felt that these games were like an escape mechanism where I could change physical appearances and do whatever I wanted with a character’s body. Through them, I even learned which makeup product is applied where. This was quite surprising for my mother. Sh

Introduction : “Many of us believe in the soul. Moral rights of the artist are the soul of his work’’ When it comes to the rights of an artist in terms of his creation, various speculations arise. Whether the law only protects its economic and materialistic rights or the concept of dignity, morals, and emotional connection of the artist to his artistic work counts. In the case of Amarnath Sehgal V. Union of India, this issue arose, and this case became one of the landmark ca

Introduction : In the process of a company developing an AI product, the software that actually brings the product to market is often not the training code or paper outlining the architecture. A good team can reconstruct, publish or copy both of those within a couple of weeks. The trained weights themselves, the numerical parameters derived from weeks or months of compute, curated data and iterative tuning, are something that can't be reproduced without massive expenses. Give

Introduction : On 10 February 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced the Information Technology (Intermediates Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026, which introduce a new category - ‘Synthetically Generated Information’ (SGI), effective from 20 February 2026. No law in India, for the first time, explicitly classifies AI generated and AI altered AVC as a separate compliance category that imposes unique due dili

Introduction : Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has been a promising technology of India’s digital economy for years. Be it a roadside peddler/vendor or a large retailer, it has made digital payments instant and without a visible transaction fee. The “free” payment system often raises an economic question: who pays for the infrastructure that makes such transactions free? The question suddenly becomes relevant because from 15th October 2026, a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of

Introduction : In a special leave petition filed regarding the rejection of a patent application for an invention which its inventor claims to be a process for improving human capabilities by integrating with artificial intelligence, Senior Advocate Swathi Sukumar was appointed as the amicus curiae in the Supreme Court of India on July 21, 2026 (Caleb Suresh Motupalli v. Controller of Patents). The application, which became known to the Controller of Patents as a device and

Introduction : A useful starting point for an inquiry is a company’s shareholder register. It is well established in the corporate and financial crime practice that legal or registered ownership frequently diverges from beneficial ownership which is the identity of a natural person who ultimately owns or controls an entity, where the legal or registered ownership is in another person’s or another entity’s name. A corporate structure can often be complicated with layers of com

Introduction : Commercial disputes are increasingly being decided by the messages exchanged on collaboration tools, the version histories of shared documents, the access logs recording who viewed or edited a file, and the audit trails of the platforms recording each administrative action. Yet the very attributes that lend these evidence value in disputes – their volume, dispersion and potential storage on servers in any jurisdiction – also render them legally precarious. This

Introduction : Suppose you’re a big global tech company. A small startup creates software that could undermine your entire business model in five years. They have very little revenue, even fewer employees, and offices based in a co-working space. The obvious solution is to acquire the startup before it matures into a serious competitive threat. The sparse financial statements and overall lack of assets of the startup would justify the deal flying under the radar of the compet

Introduction : The urban rental market has over the past decade generated a unique hybrid asset class co-living homes and serviced apartment complexes that are a blend of residential architecture and a hotelized business model. Co-living operators rent or own an entire building and rent out furnished apartments under flexible, often monthly, agreements with young professionals and students, including the services of housekeeping, Wi-Fi and community programming. Similar to a

Introduction : Two sellers on the same online marketplace can find themselves pricing each other’s products within a few rupees for months, without either ever sending an email to the other. Both will have attached their price listings to a repricing tool, which tracks the competitor’s price and makes automatic adjustments of its own product’s price, often within seconds. The result can be equivalent to a cartel of prices: discounts do not appear on both products simultaneous

Introduction : While there is nothing new in private equity funds featuring ESG-related commitments in their marketing materials, an increasing number of funds are now embedding ESG-related undertakings within the operative documents. This includes indicative ESG targets within term sheets, specific ESG-related exclusions and disclosure covenants inside letters and disclosure of portfolio-level ESG metrics within fund reports to LPs. The practical significance of this develop

Introduction : The Real Estate Regulatory Authority is a statutory board which came into existence through the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016. The sole purpose for the formation of RERA was to regulate the Real Estate sector, maintain transparency in Real Estate transactions and investor protection by mandating accountability. It acts as a safeguard for the investors. RERA was formed mainly to protect homebuyers. While RERA is often associated with homebuy