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Alibaba Smashes Records with $38 Billion Singles’ Day Sales
Shrugging concerns of “weakening discretionary spending” and “more muted” demand from Chinese…
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CAIT Asks for High level…
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Gaming and Licensing News
Google to Launch Cloud Gaming Service Stadia on November 19
Google’s cloud gaming service,…
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Licensing News
Apple’s Siri to Default to Preferred Third-Party Apps
Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, will soon be updated to…
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Licensing News
Flutter-TSG to Form Largest Online Betting Company
UK betting giant, Flutter Entertainment, is all set to buy Canadian online gaming…
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Meghan Markle Sues Newspaper
American actress and now Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, has initiated legal proceedings against the publisher of the UK daily newspaper the Mail on Sunday and its…
Amazon Seller Services Private Limited ("Amazon") runs the eCommerce marketplace at www.amazon.in, and among other products, Amazon facilitates sale of eBooks and/or eBook subscription licenses on the platform at its Kindle eBook Store at https://www.amazon.in/Kindle-eBooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=1634753031. In my opinion, Amazon's business and approach with respect to eBooks does not comply with the recent FDI eCommerce guidelines by virtue of the following:
By exclusively permitting only its group company Amazon Asia Pacific ("Amazon APAC") to sell eBooks on its marketplace;
By…
Amazon's Kindle eBooks need no introduction. Everyone is aware of them, and since the launch of the Kindle eBook store in India, Amazon claims that its publisher and customer base is growing fast. In 2018, Amazon also launched Audible, its audio book store in India. So far, I have used the term Amazon loosely to refer to several of its entities. For purposes of this post, two entities of Amazon are relevant. One, Amazon Asia Pacific Holdings Private Limited (Amazon…
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COPYRIGHT QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A…