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September 21, 2021

Legal Issues Seminar-General IP (LIS-GIP) On ‘Whether Search Engines As Autonomous Databases Can Be Held Liable For IP Infringement?’

Featuring: Shilpa Margaret Kurian

A ‘Legal Issues Seminar-General IP’ (LIS-GIP) was conducted by Shilpa Margaret Kurian, Trainee Associate, on ‘Whether Search Engines as Autonomous Databases can be held liable for IP Infringement?’. The seminar explored the concepts of databases, autonomous databases, and search engines. To understand the position of search engines as databases in India, reliance was placed on judicial precedents, in addition to the relevant legal provisions under the Copyright Act, 1957. The session concluded with some interesting questions and discussion among the team members regarding jurisdictional issues and what may be the liability of search engines when enforcing the right to be forgotten.

The presentation can be accessed here.

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