Adyasha Samal is a Researcher at the Institute for European Tort Law (ÖAW), Vienna. She completed her BA LLB (Hons) from Hidayatullah National Law University, India and her Bachelor of Civil Laws at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include intellectual property, privacy, and law of torts.
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India’s Deepfake Dilemma: Why Publicity Rights and the Proposed Intermediary Rules Both Miss the Mark
On October 22, 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed a set of amendments to the existing Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 to respond ...
New WIPO Treaty to Protect Indigenous Rights: Reform without Sanction
Indigenous people’s traditional knowledge has routinely been misappropriated through the use of conventional intellectual property systems. The WIPO Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge Treaty adopted in May 2024 ...
India’s new Abortion Bill Falls Short of Protecting Reproductive Autonomy
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has introduced the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2020 (the Bill) in the Parliament. The Bill seeks to make abortions more accessible by increasing gestational limits, ...
