Online Gaming in India

Lovely Dasgupta has been in the teaching profession for the last eighteen years. She is an alumnus of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, where she has completed her L.L.M., M.Phil., and Ph.D. She primarily teaches Contract and Commercial law at the Undergraduate level and Competition Law at the Postgraduate level. She is one of the founding Indian academics to introduce a taught course on Sports Law. In the past sixteen years, she has been writing about and researching issues within the field of sports law. In addition, she has also published in competition law. To date, she has published four books on Sports Law and Competition Law. In addition, she has also published on Legal Education, which has been one of her highly cited works. Among others, Prof. Werner Menski in ‘Shah Bano, Narendra Modi and reality checks about global understandings of Indian law,’ Nirma University Law Journal (Ahmedabad), Volume 1, Issue 1(2011), has cited pp. 7- 26 of ‘Reforming Indian Legal education: Linking Research and Teaching, Journal of Legal Education, Volume 59, Number 3’ (see Footnote No. 15 of Menski). She is heading the Centre for Sports Law and Policy at NUJS. She is the only Indian to be a member of the International Network of Doping Research, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark. Shameek Sen is Associate Professor at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. He specializes in public law disciplines such as constitutional law and media law. He has several publications as books, book chapters, and articles in peer- reviewed journals and newspaper op- ed articles. His book titled Sports Law in India: Policy, Regulation and Commercialisation, co- edited with Dr. Lovely Dasgupta, is considered to be one of the leading Indian books on the subject. He has also presented several papers at international conferences and symposia, including the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conferences and the Biennial Conferences organized by the Asian Constitutional Law Forum. His article titled ‘Constitutional Crisis, Autocratic Legalism and the Indian Constitution: Constitutionalism at Crossroads?’ was selected as the sole Indian entry at a project on Constitutional Struggles in Asia and was presented at an International Webinar organized by the Australian National University and the National University of Singapore Centre for Asian Legal Studies Faculty of Law. He currently holds the position of Director at the Centre for Technology, Entertainment and Sports Laws, a Research Centre that was set up at WBNUJS with financial support from M/ S Gameskraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s largest skill- based online gaming platforms. The Center is a pioneer academic contributor in India to the scholarship in these niche areas of study, organizing lectures, symposia, workshops, and training programs dealing with the latest domain knowledge on the nuances of these subject matters.

Introduction 1. ONLINE GAMES IN INDIA: ANCIENT LEGACY, MODERN CHALLENGES 2. Evolution Of Jurisprudence on Online Games of Skill 3. In Regulatory Purgatory: How Many Lives Left Before Mission Success For The Indian Gaming Industry? 4. Pathways To Stake-holder Led Regulation in Online Gaming 5. Regulatory Progress And Challenges In India’s Booming Online Gaming Market 6. Of Monopolistic Attitude, Power Mongering And Trust Deficit 7. Regulating Online Gaming: Centre Versus State Competence 8. Walking On Eggshells: Prospects Of Self-Regulating Online Gaming In India 9. Challenges And Prospects- An Analysis Of Fantasy Sports Regulation In India 10. Online Gambling Through An Anti-Money Laundering Perspective: A Cross Jurisdictional Analysis 11. Cyber-Security And Data Privacy Challenges In Online Gaming: Analyzing The Cyber-Security Risks And Challenges Faced By Online Gaming Platforms In India 12. Blockchain In Online Gaming: Navigating The Legal Landscape For India And The World 13. A Study On The Legal Challenges In Online Gaming With Special Reference To Network, Accessibility, And Piracy 14. Innovation And Policy: Balancing Technological Advancements With Regulatory Frameworks In Indian Online Gaming 15. Dark Patterns In The Gaming Industry: Legal Implications And Safeguarding User Rights 16. Navigating The Legal Landscape Of Online Gaming In India: Precedence, Regulations, And Future Perspectives 17. Do E-Sports Broadcasts Infringe Videogame Copyright? 18. Player Image Rights And Online Gaming: Decoding The Game 19. Copyrightability Of Digital Player Cards In Online Fantasy Sports: A Conundrum In The Indian Copyright Law 20. Navigating Legal And Operational Uncertainty Around Advertisement Of Online Games 21. Gender Dynamics In Online Gaming: Exploring Participation And Representation In India 22. Child’s Consent In Online Gaming Click-Wrap Agreements And Its Intersection With Privacy 23. Responsible & Ethical Framework In Online Gaming: A Shared Responsibility 24. A Comparative Study Of The GGR And Turnover Models Of Taxing Online Gaming 25. GST And Online Gaming Sector: A Taxing Saga