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Corporate Governance: An Ancient Scripture Of Modern Governance

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction Corporate governance is a term which is used in very broader sense when it came to company or corporate law. Whereas the term ‘governance’ means how to govern a particular thing. In addition to both these terms, Corporate Governance basically deals with how to regulate or govern the company.

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The Bill C-18 Reality: Everyone Loses When the Government Mandates Payments for Links

Michael Geist

As some have noted , the government says the companies are stealing content if they link and blocking content if they don’t. But even if there was, the idea that the government and broadcasters are looking to profit from weak Canadian privacy laws isn’t something to brag about.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

7) Governments loot Google and Facebook under the pretense of “saving” journalism. The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. StopTheSADScheme.

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Kerala High Court on Publishing Judgments and Right to be Forgotten: Some Points to Ponder Upon

SpicyIP

In all the cases, parties claimed infringement of their right to be forgotten under the right to privacy by the uploading of court orders/judgments on the IndianKanoon website, a free Indian law search engine that provides access to central laws, cases, constituent assembly debates, law commission reports. Privacy and Anonymity.

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Who Owns the Information, and Why It Matters in an Era of Information Surveillance?

IIPRD

First, in order to effectively safeguard the interests of the data principal, laws governing Digital Intellectual Property and Data protection ought to guarantee that the control procedures for data fiduciaries are not so strenuous as to make even lawful computation impractical.

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Emerging patterns of IP and Sustainability

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is showcased by a concentration of academic events (among others, here and here ), global and EU policy initiatives ( here and here ), and a significant number of book contributions as well as dedicated journal issues (such as recent numbers of JIPLP and IIC ) fully focused on the topic of IP and Sustainability.

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The Challenges around Regulating Shell Companies in India.

IP and Legal Filings

1] The Panama papers, which leaked the financial information of multiple businessmen, politicians & other high ranking government officials. Off shore accounts in such countries help maintain privacy and security since the data privacy laws are stringent and highly favourable to the wealthy.