Anurag Tiwary and Abhinav Narayan Jha

The status quo of criminal investigation in India: A cause for worry?

October 28, 2020

“Everything has been said already, but as no one listens, we must always begin again.” Andre Gide – French Thinker and Writer Justice Malimath Committee, which was tasked with suggesting reforms in the Criminal Justice System, started its report with the above quote by Andre Gide. This was in 2003....

INDIA’S RAPE LAWS AND WHY THEY ARE OBSOLETE

October 5, 2020

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller Our rape laws have undergone several changes over the years. In 1860, the Indian Penal Code, under Section 375, made punishable an act of sexual...

How much funny is really funny? The debate over parody in copyright law

September 26, 2020

The difference between parody and satire has not been accepted or developed by the Indian courts in the context of IP laws. This means that whether a work is a parody or a satire, the defence of fair use can be claimed by the defendants and the work shall also...