{"id":70388,"date":"2021-04-08T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/one\/?p=70388"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:20:57","slug":"copyright-information-technology-ecommerce-govt-notifications-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/copyright-information-technology-ecommerce-govt-notifications-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyright, Information Technology and eCommerce Govt. Notifications-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ministry of Commerce and Industry introduces the Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued a notification, through the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), introducing the Copyright\u00a0 (Amendment) Rules, 2021, with effect from 30th March, 2021.<br \/>\nA copy of the rules may be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/copyright.gov.in\/Documents\/Notification\/Copyright-Rules_Amendment_2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Meity introduces the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a notification, introducing the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.<br \/>\nA copy of the rules may be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meity.gov.in\/writereaddata\/files\/Intermediary_Guidelines_and_Digital_Media_Ethics_Code_Rules-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Meity announces Public Consultation for draft of the National Strategy on Blockchain<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has recently published the draft National Strategy on Blockchain, in consultation with various stakeholders including academia, industry and government.<br \/>\nMeitY has now issued a notification calling for suggestions from the public with regard to the draft National Strategy on Blockchain.<br \/>\nA copy of the notification may be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meity.gov.in\/content\/draft-national-strategy-blockchain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Authored and compiled by\u00a0 Neharika Vhatkar (Associate, BananaIP Counsels)<br \/>\nRecent updates from the Copyright Office are brought to you jointly by the Entertainment Law and Consulting\/Strategy Divisions of BananaIP Counsels, a Top IP Firm in India. If you have any questions, or need any clarifications, please write to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:contact@bananaip.com\"><em>contact@bananaip.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0with the subject:\u00a0 Copyright Office Updates<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Please note that these case updates have been put together from different sources, primary and secondary, and BananaIP\u2019s reporters may not have verified all the decisions published in the bulletin. You may write to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:contact@bananaip.com\"><em>contact@bananaip.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0for corrections and take down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This update covers key 2021 government notifications on copyright, information technology, and eCommerce. It discusses new copyright amendment rules, IT intermediary guidelines, and the national blockchain strategy, providing a factual legal overview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1046],"tags":[11257,11255,11256,3835,4323,1043,4891,4021],"class_list":["post-70388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyrights","category-e-commerce-law","tag-blockchain-strategy","tag-copyright-amendment-rules-2021","tag-digital-media-ethics","tag-dpiit","tag-government-notifications","tag-indian-copyright-law","tag-intermediary-guidelines","tag-meity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141571,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70388\/revisions\/141571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}