If there was ever a time for the judiciary to redeem itself and to end the ambiguity about free speech, the time is now, when press freedoms stand at a critical crossroads.
Wikileaks’ revelations of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter highlight a particularly insidious attempt by the United States to undermine India’s patent regime, thus undermining its efforts to keep medicines affordable
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 19 October 2014
Students have been photocopying expensive text-books all these years, and the publishing industry has thrived and prospered. Should not the Copyright Act have a liberal exception for educational books?
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 16 September 2014
Karnataka government now is equipped to arrest you even before you commit an offence under the IT Act—even if it <i> thinks</i> you are <i> planning</i> to send a 'lascivious' photo to a WhatsApp group, or forwarding a copyrighted song...
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 4 August 2014
June 19 marks two years that the founder of Wikileaks has spent as a political refugee within the confines of the Ecuadorean embassy in London. A time to consider our own engagement with the surveillance state.
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 18 June 2014
It's not about AAP but about a law that allows a man to be put in prison because he called a politician “corrupt”. The debate about India’s criminal defamation laws is long overdue.
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 22 May 2014
Free speech liberals should accept Navyana’s legal right to not publish Joe D’Cruz’s book, but nonetheless condemn its actions with the same vigour as they protested Penguin's decision regarding Doniger's book
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 13 April 2014
It is common practice to deny a house, otherwise generally available on rent, to a person because of their religion. Time to recall the lost radicalism of Article 15(2)
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 26 March 2014
As disturbing details about Netra become public, there are valuable lessons for India in the ongoing American debate over bulk telephone surveillance which has left two American courts to give opposing verdicts
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 6 January 2014
Today's Supreme Court judgment that reverses the Delhi High Court judgment of 2009 is both constitutionally preposterous and morally egregious
BY Gautam Bhatia (Lawyer) 10 December 2013
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