The Supreme Court on Right to Privacy: A Game Changing Decision? In the Puttaswamy verdict, the Supreme Court declared that the Right to Privacy is a ‘fundamental right’ conferring on it certain additional protections which were not earlier available to it as a common law/statutory right. These include: As a fundamental right it cannot beRead more
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P2P lending in India is legal but as of now unregulated. However, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been closely assessing the need for regulation in this industry and has also come up with a consultation paper and suggested draft rules. Further, as per recent newspaper reports the draft rules which were released inRead more
The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in its 2014 Consultation Paper on Crowdfunding has defined crowdfunding as means of raising money for a creative project (for instance, music film book publication), a benevolent or public interest cause (for instance, a community based social or co-operative initiative) or a business venture, through small financialRead more
Co-founder agreements should be an essential item on the to-do list of any startup founder. This is an excerpt from a talk by Anirudh Rastogi, Managing Partner, TRA on “10 Legal Mistakes that Hurt Start-ups”. This excerpt focuses on the importance of drafting and negotiating a co-founders’ agreement between co-founders to a startup. Co-founder agreementsRead more
How do you protect Intellectual Property in your software? TRA’s Anirudh Rastogi discusses copyright (0:00) and patent protection for software (0:24). He also discusses protection of IP in UI and UX (1:51) and physical checks for the protection of IP (2:36). Protecting intellectual property in software can be tricky. Generally speaking, Indian law provides forRead more