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Social media & Cyber Law in India

By - Roushni Singh B.A.LL.B 1st Year   What is Social Media? The Oxford Dictionary defines social media as a website and applications that enable and share content to participate in social networking. Through, this the individual interacts to each other virtually and sometime they communicate through the internet. Here individual share his content and photos regarding his life, thought, feeling, occasions, events, day today happening etc. But it has also became source of cybercrime, where user of social media is becoming victim of cybercrime. User often post their personal information on social media, which is being watched by the people, and that where cybercrime begins. Hacker extract and gather all the sensitive information regarding the user and use it for trapping them in world of cybercrime. Hacker steals the sensitive and important information of people to use them to blackmail. People are often negligent about their network, they allow anyone to become part of their soc

How did Puttaswamy judgement Change Right to Privacy

A Supreme Court bench substing of nine judges constitutionally clasped that Third section of India's constitution guarantees the right to privacy; the right to privacy is constitutionally authorized and sheltered right beneath the article 21 of the Indian constitution. By- Kamlesh Singh B.A.LLB 2nd Year New Law College,  Bharati Vidyapeeth(deemed to be)Univesity, Pune The case   put forwarded   by the   91 year old retired high court judge of madras high court ;   Puttaswamy   who   have challenge the   uniform demographic biometric card (Aadhar card )   of the government which would be beneficial for accessing the all government service   the government contended that perhaps the privacy rights is not guaranteed by the Indian constitution, citing Kharak Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, but that the Supreme Court argued that article 21 incidentally guarantees the right to privacy.which is “ no person shall be deprived of personal life and liberty . This is a constitutional judgem

COPYRIGHT LAW

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By - Mansi Oberoi B.A.LLB 3rd Year New Law College Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be university) Pune , Maharashtra         Intellectual property can be classified into two main components- Industrial property Copyrights Industrial property can further be classified as Patents Industrial designs Trademarks Geographical indications While copyright in itself is a different and vast portion under Intellectual Property Rights. Copyright is an essential element under Intellectual Property Rights which aims to grants exclusive rights to various creators in order to control someone from copying of a particular creation and it also prevents from exploiting any sort of copyright material. Copyright is basically provided to a creator for their creation such as copyright on a particular music, book, novel, or any work of creativity. The aim to provide copyright is that the benefits provided by a creation are solely enjoyed by the creator. There are two doctrines to test copyright protection, w

Copyright Issues

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By:- Deergha B.A.LLB 3rd Year New Law College Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Pune, Maharashtra Copyright is based on the General Principle of Law. This act gives legal rights to the originator i.e. provider over his creation like writing, film, musical material etc. for a fixed number of years. Anyone who has a copyright can copy, sell or use his writing or work in any way. It is based on a common law principal. It aims to reward the originator for creating new things and enjoying the fruits of his labor and encouraging creative activities in the society. When is copyright infringement considered? The originator has full legal rights on any writing, content, song and film etc. If someone makes personal use of such content, then it is permissible under the legal framework. However, its dissemination and use for commercial purposes will be considered a copyright infringement. Is it permissible to take part or part of any content? No content may be used commercially without

Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights

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By :- Brajesh Raj B.A.LLB 3rd Year New Law College Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Pune, Maharashtra The term Intellectual property refers to a type of property that is a construction by the human intellect. ex. – literary work, art etc. It is an overall term for the assets that are not physical and cannot be touched and are result of human mind.  Intellectual Property Right is the right that is given to the persons to protect the intellectual property.  Some Important kinds of Intellectual Property Rights: 1. Patent: It is a right given for an invention, that provides, in general, a different method of doing something, or provides a new technical solution to something.   2. Copyright: It is a word used to describe the authority that creators have over their literary and artistic works.  3. Trademark: It is a mark which has capacity of differentiating the commodities/services of an individual from that of another individual.  History Of Intellectual Property Rights

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH CYBERCRIMES

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  By:- Jaya BALLB 2nd Year Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) New Law College Pune, Maharashtra.    What is an Intellectual Property? Intellectual property simply means art or thought of mind which includes new creation, learning, invention, or any kind of discovery by the mankind. There are 2 kinds of property named as Physical property and Intellectual property. Physical property includes the movable as well as the immovable property like house, building, jewellery whereas Intellectual property includes any idea, design or thought of human folk. Intellectual Property rights include rights given to the person to safeguard their intellectual property that is right to keep their ideas, thoughts, design, discovery protected from being inefficiently used by others for their own benefit. This right given to us are of various types which include Trademark, Copyright, Patent. The intellectual property law owes its origin during the 17 th and 18 th Century in England. Ho

Cyber Crime in Today's World

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By:- Shreya Garg BALLB 2nd Year Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) New Law College Pune Maharashtra  Millions of computers running on a billion lines of code does sound fancy because it makes our life easier by doing the tasks which could take a long time and resources to get the work done. In short sighted idea it would not seem a big of a problem if your project got deleted somehow you may not notice it just because it was a small task to accomplish but consider a scientist working for a decade on a research or idea and somehow it got deleted or stolen or the data in in project got changed, it would be a disaster considering the work and time he put into it. Even if a harm or felony done on a small scale is harmful and indictable which should not be taken lightly. And all the activities like deleting a project, stealing data, copying data without consent,fraud,cyber extortion,etc are termed as cyber crime. There are many ways for a hacker to commit a crime without leaving a