RGNUL FINANCIAL AND MERCANTILE LAW REVIEW

This guest post is authored by Ms. Niharika Salar, Assistant Professor at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Image Credits: https://nordicapis.com/ 1. INTRODUCTION When Java was brought into existence by James Gosling in 1995, little did he foresee his creation being the crux of a rather lengthy litigation. The United States Supreme Court gave its much-awaited opinion recently, after a long-drawn courtroom war between tech giants Google and Oracle over copyright issues in t

This guest post is authored by Dr. Athira P S, Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, at National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), Kochi. Image Credits: https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/ 1. INTRODUCTION Bloomberg, in 2016, reported an interesting incident on something known as ‘Pseudo-AI’, by looking into the practices of certain companies employing low paid workers to ‘act’ in the digital space as ‘bots’. What can be termed as a ‘Wizard of Oz’ effect,