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MeitY Advisory to Social Media Platforms on Unlawful Online Content: Compliance Under IT Act & Rules

MeitY has issued an advisory directing intermediaries and social media platforms to prevent hosting, sharing, or transmission of obscene, indecent, sexually explicit, paedophilic, or otherwise unlawful online content; directing to remove them within 24 hours.

Case Briefs High Courts

Google’s use of trade marks as keywords for display of advertisements, amounts to ‘use’ under Section 29(6) of Trade Marks Act, 1999: Delhi High Court

“There is nothing illegal in seeking out internet users as targets for advertisements that they may find relevant. In brick-and-mortar world, there will be no question of infringement if customers looking for a product are also offered products of rival competitors”.