By Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert & Chairperson, Lex Cyberia This article is a basic guide to understanding the concept of domain names on the internet and briefly discusses the Domain Name dispute Resolution policy and the famous Tata case, one of the first domain name disputes in the Indian context . What is an IP […]

By- Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert Section 4 of the Indian IT Act, 2000 confers legal recognition to electronic records .Paper based documents are equated with electronic records so long as they are made available in electronic form and are accessible so as to be usable for a subsequent reference. Section 5 confers legal recognition to […]

* Karnika Seth, Managing partner , Seth Associates & Mr. H.M Mukherjee, Associate ,Seth Associates The era of Information technology has brought new methods and modes of commission of crime. Each time a crime is committed whether in physical form or in cyber space, the success of prosecution largely depends on the quality of evidence […]

(Position before IT Amendment Bill 2008 was passed) Karnika Seth – Cyber lawyer & Consultant practicing in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court At the outset, I must confess that it is an extremely challenging task to present a critique on the subject of Combating Cyber crime and law & enforcement in […]

ON THE AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AMENDMENT BILL 2008 The Information Technology Amendment Bill 2008 was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the last week of December 2008 and received the President’s assent on 5th February 2009. The Bill aims to make sweeping changes in the existing Indian cyber law […]

The Indian ITAct,2000 stipulates that Network service providers are not liable in certain cases, for any third party information or data made available by an ISP, if it proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge[1],, or that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commissioning of such offence [2]. A ‘network […]

Karnika Seth – Cyber lawyer & Consultant practicing in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court THE MEANING OF PHISING In the cyber-world phising (also known as carding and spoofing) is a form of illegal act whereby fraudulently sensitive information is acquired, such as passwords and credit card details, by a person/entity masquerading […]

By- Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert Hate speech is a term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity,disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic, class, occupation or appearance (such as […]

By Karnika Seth, Cyberlaw expert & Partner, Seth Associates Advocates & legal Consultants Can we regulate the internet? The unprecedented advent of Internet is challenging many existing models of Information society and forms of regulation. Internet is a global communication network and in its quintessence, beyond the national frontiers and does not fit into the […]

By Karnika Seth, Chairperson, Lex Cyberia The term spam was first used in the early 1990s to describe e-mail messages, not related to the topic of discussion and postings that swamped newsgroups. Spam is frequently described as e-mail that is sent in bulk; flooding the Internet with copies of the same message and forcing these […]