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FESTIVE FERVOUR

Insights

The National Sports Governance Act 2025

⁠IPR

Fanfiction: Quirky PDA

Tete-a-Tete

Sexual harassment : Nothing ‘POSH’ about it

What’s brewing

Online Gaming Act 2025

Verdict

Moratorium on possession of property

⁠Lawtitude

Cybersecurity: self-encryption

Insights

Loot-Boxes, Indian Law and the New Online Gaming Bill — Are We Covered?

Integrating variable rewards in online/ mobile gaming has two sides to it – monetization and addiction. The online gaming Act seeks to address this issue.

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Decoding IPR

Writing Between the Lines: Copyright and Fanfiction

Fans making / reproducing their favourite is transformative display of love to their favourite work

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Tête-à-tête

POSH

More than a decade after its enactment, the POSH Act is not being taken seriously by the corporate world.

What's Brewing

National Sports Governance Act, 2025 (No. 25 of 2025)

Being a sports loving nation, India finally got its own one stop law governing all sports and its governing bodies.

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Circulars and Notifications

The latest set of circulars and notifications brought out by the MCA, FEMA, SEBI & RBI. 

The Verdict

‘Moratorium’ under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

The Apex court pronounced an important judgment on applicability of moratorium over possession of property of an insolvent corporate debtor.

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Go Figure

The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025

17 Central Acts across sectors including but not limited to transport, industry, energy, and municipal governance have been amended to promote ease of doing business and compliance.

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Lawtitude

The Firewall Within: Why Cybersecurity Starts With Citizens

Cybersecurity begins from within, despite the growing need for taut laws the world
over

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Lawlipop

Orissa HC

Orissa HC:

Gratuity: not bounty or bonanza, is a statutory right

Kerala HC

Kerala HC:

E-interrogation of accused living abroad

Quirky Corner

No Naming Your Pig Napoleon (France)

Don’t ‘pork’ fun at Napolean in France. You will be in jail!

Law: In France, it’s illegal to name your pig “Napoleon”. This quirky law comes from a decree passed after Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign, as a way of protecting the memory of the famous French leader. Naming a pig after Napoleon was considered an insult to his legacy. In France, naming your pig “Napoleon” is a squeal of rebellion!

Worth a Thought?

Success – a Fight Between You and Yourself

Our biggest battles are internal – asking oneself if we are successful compared to others. It is important to recognize that the battle is not with the success of others, but with self-perception and attributes that restrict or prevent us from attaining our goals – self-doubt, procrastination, lack of motivation, indiscipline, low self-confidence, critical self -judgment. 

The first step towards success is dealing with and overcoming self-doubt, self-criticism. Most importantly doing what gives one pleasure. As philosopher Albert Schweitzer stated “success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful”.

Constant acquisition and upgradation of one’s domain knowledge and craft, developing  resilience and patience is key to being the path of success. Most importantly, it is essential to compete with one-self and not others. Though success is gauged by materialistic possessions, ideally it should be measured based on the betterment of the person, the quality of work executed, the value systems preserved in the process. It is about setting one’s own benchmark, achieving it and then moving to the next one. Look you self in the mirror, tell yourself that you are no less than others and carve your own path to success.  

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