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In this episode of the LSPR Podcast, Shreya Banchhor and Shauryaveer Chaudhry sit down with Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, the am...
29/09/2026

In this episode of the LSPR Podcast, Shreya Banchhor and Shauryaveer Chaudhry sit down with Mr. Adarsh Ramanujan, the amicus curiae in the ANI Media v. OpenAI proceedings.The conversation examines the copyright implications of AI training, including web scraping, storage, tokenisation, vectorisation, and memorisation. Mr. Ramanujan discusses Sections 14 and 52 of the Copyright Act and the Court’s approach to the research exception. The discussion also explores the implications of the case for news organisations and creative works. It concludes by considering the broader policy questions surrounding AI and the need for legislative intervention.

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Hosted by Aastha Nayak and Shauryaveer Chaudhry, Senior Editors at the Law School Policy Review, this podcast examines I...
20/09/2026

Hosted by Aastha Nayak and Shauryaveer Chaudhry, Senior Editors at the Law School Policy Review, this podcast examines India’s intellectual property framework. The discussion draws on Prashant Reddy T.’s Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas. It explores the relationship between IP protection and innovation. It then turns to generative AI and copyright. The speakers discuss text and data mining, reproduction, compensation, and copyright exceptions. They examine the idea-expression dichotomy and authorship of AI-generated works. The conversation also considers traditional knowledge and geographical indications. It concludes with Basmati and emerging questions at the intersection of agriculture and intellectual property.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/09/19/symposium-on-openai-v-ani-create-copy-disrupt-in-the-age-of-ai-with-prashant-reddy-t/

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In this episode of the Law School Policy Review podcast, Shauryaveer, Devang, Izzuddin and Shreyansh speak with Professo...
19/09/2026

In this episode of the Law School Policy Review podcast, Shauryaveer, Devang, Izzuddin and Shreyansh speak with Professor Anton Zimmermann of Heidelberg University on the evolving landscape of corporate human-rights due diligence and the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

The conversation explores the CSDDD’s extraterritorial reach and its implications for Indian corporations and supply chains, alongside questions of international jurisdiction, sovereignty, cross-border evidence and civil liability following the Omnibus I Directive. The discussion also considers the “Brussels effect” and its implications for multilateralism, compares the European framework with India’s CSR and BRSR regimes, and concludes with what Indian exporters should watch in the post-Omnibus landscape.

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The 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill mandates removal of ministers detained for thirty days but stays silent on back ...
16/09/2026

The 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill mandates removal of ministers detained for thirty days but stays silent on back pay upon reappointment following acquittal. This paper argues such removal functions as a deemed suspension under Rule 10(2), CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965, entitling restoration of pay. Treating acquitted and convicted ministers alike fails Article 14’s twin test, amounting tomanifest arbitrariness and punishment without conviction. The provision thus exceeds Parliaments amending power, warranting basic structure review.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/09/09/beyond-removal-suspension-and-the-130th-amendments-basic-structure/

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This article examines the implications of common ownership for competition in India’s increasingly oligopolistic markets...
15/09/2026

This article examines the implications of common ownership for competition in India’s increasingly oligopolistic markets. It assesses whether the existing material-influence framework adequately captures the competitive risks arising from overlapping ownership and informational linkages between rivals. By examining the interaction between market concentration, and common ownership, the article argues for a market-sensitive regulatory framework incorporating rebuttable presumptions and targeted behavioural remedies.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/09/11/beyond-material-influence-common-ownership-indias-oligopolistic-markets/

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This piece argues that the Transgender Amendment Act, 2026 undermines its own aim owing to the drafting inconsistencies ...
15/09/2026

This piece argues that the Transgender Amendment Act, 2026 undermines its own aim owing to the drafting inconsistencies in Section 18. The narrow ‘against the will’ standard fails to reach enlisted non-coercive triggers while lack of intent qualifiers risks overbreadth. The piece suggests targeted redrafting to ensure effective protection.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/08/31/paper-shield-the-internal-contradictions-of-section-18-of-the-transgender-persons-amendment-act-2026/

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Transgender communities have existed in India from times immemorial. However, the 2026 Amendment limits the definition o...
15/09/2026

Transgender communities have existed in India from times immemorial. However, the 2026 Amendment limits the definition of “transgender person”, limiting which communities can claim protection under the law. This piece wishes analyse the Constitutionality of the Amendment, the classificatory basis it uses, and the status of India’s culturally transgender communities.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/09/09/from-existence-to-erasure-an-analysis-of-socio-cultural-identities-under-the-transgender-persons-protection-of-rights-amendment-act-2026/

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Ujjwal Sharma and Vedika Mittal speak with LSPR Editors Aastha Nayak and Vinayak Kedia about the improvised architecture...
15/09/2026

Ujjwal Sharma and Vedika Mittal speak with LSPR Editors Aastha Nayak and Vinayak Kedia about the improvised architecture underneath India’s personality rights, a body of law built almost entirely out of ex parte interim orders against an anonymous “Ashok Kumar” defendant, never contested and never brought to final judgment. They discuss how a right assembled from Article 21, the tort of passing off, and a 2012 three-part test holds up once deepfakes, voice cloning, and posthumous digital resurrection are put to it; where the line falls between a celebrity’s commercial persona and an ordinary citizen’s claim to dignity and privacy; whether Indian courts have gone further than the UK’s more disciplined reliance on passing off, and at what cost to journalism, parody, and satire; and what an AI model’s use of a person’s likeness, at the training stage and the output stage, does to a copyright framework still built around the assumption that a human is doing the authoring.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/09/12/podcast-with-ujjwal-sharma-and-vedika-mittal-personality-rights-in-the-age-of-deepfakes/

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Sr. Adv. Diya Kapur, senior advocate at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court, moderates a panel of Prof. (Dr.) Aru...
06/09/2026

Sr. Adv. Diya Kapur, senior advocate at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court, moderates a panel of Prof. (Dr.) Arul George Scaria, court-appointed amicus curiae in the case, Prof. (Dr.) Dev Gangjee of the Oxford IP Research Centre, Adv. Madhav Khosla of Khaitan & Co, and Prof. (Dr.) Zakir T. Thomas, former Registrar of Copyright, Government of India, for a conversation on the ANI v. OpenAI judgment and its implications for India’s copyright and AI regulatory landscape.

The panel works through the four issues framed by the Delhi High Court regarding training, storage, fair dealing under Section 52, and jurisdiction, before they turn to memorization and how courts overseas have approached the question of whether a trained model can itself be a copy. The conversation moves into where the real locus of infringement lies, the judgment’s jurisdictional reach over training done outside India, and closes on the unsettled question of what counts as lawfully acquired training data.

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Website: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/09/06/panel-discussion-on-ani-v-openai-the-future-of-the-information-ecosystem/

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India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 seek to support ...
06/09/2026

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 seek to support India’s role in the global digital economy. However, the framework remains executive-centric. The Central Government has significant control over the Data Protection Board, broad powers to call for information, and wide powers to exempt State instrumentalities on grounds including national security.

This creates a tension in India’s digital policy. The DPDPA keeps control over personal data with the government, even as India increasingly supports digital trade and cross-border data flows. Its broad executive powers, limited institutional independence and safeguards for data transfers that have not yet been notified may complicate foreign adequacy assessments and transfer risk analyses. The framework may therefore enable cross-border data flows in principle, while creating uncertainty for businesses and regulators assessing whether India provides sufficiently reliable and independent privacy protections, the need of the hour.

Permalink: https://lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2026/08/31/the-dpdpa-regime-and-indias-digital-trade-ambitions/

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