#RighttoKnow: Partnership with Right2Info
On the occasion of International Right to Know Day, we are pleased to announce our new partnership with Right2Info, an initiative of the Open Society…
On the occasion of International Right to Know Day, we are pleased to announce our new partnership with Right2Info, an initiative of the Open Society…
The International Press Institute’s (IPI) work on legal reform is now being hosted by the Media Laws Database. IPI is a global network of publishers, editors,…
March 11, 2019 As members of academic communities around the world, we strongly condemn the sentencing of Professor Zübeyde Füsun Üstel of Galatasaray University in…
A paper by David Post for the 2016 Justice for Free Expression Conference, 4-5 April. My presentation will address a set of closely-related cases which, in my…
Fighting Through Cartoons Charged with nine counts of sedition, Zunar, Malaysia’s famous political cartoonist once vowed, “How can I be neutral, even my pen has…
Series C No. 353
The Delhi High Court, in a petition filed by Flipkart seeking quashing of the first information report/FIR (information on the basis of which criminal proceedings are initiated), held that the ‘Safe Harbour Protection’ guaranteed to intermediaries under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 is applicable to criminal cases as well. It further opined that it is not required for the intermediaries to take down content prohibited under the Indian Copyright Act or the Trademark Act only upon receipt of ‘actual knowledge’ pursuant to complaints received. Relying on the Supreme Court decision in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, 2015 (5) SCC 1, the Court propounded that it is imperative for a court order pursuant to which intermediaries will comply with take down requests in relation to any complaint.
Published in Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 38 (86-111), 2020 Abstract: Private social media companies regulate much more speech than any government does, and their…
This publication aims to provide an overview of the case law on freedom of expression in the Inter-American System of Human Rights by creating…