Aditi Chaudhary & Sanjana Mehta, Jindal Global Law School
INTRODUCTION
Today’s digital era brings with it an expanding online world which needs special laws for the protection of its users from various forms of criminal acts. New challenges arise especially in the context of copyright infringement as now anyone and everyone has the tools to copy and distribute copyrighted content to the masses across the world with a mere click. Technology allows users to stay anonymous and commit such acts at no additional costs to them and at huge perils of the intellectual property rights holders. To overcome this problem and to offer substantial reliefs to the rights holders, the legal liability is placed upon the intermediaries who allow and at times facilitate such wrongs. This is known as intermediary liability.
