LLM Group 3 Law of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Information Technology Cyber Laws Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Six files in this folder hold SEVEN distinct printed papers and forty eight questions, and all forty eight are answered here. The 2015 scan carries two complete and different hundred mark papers, QP Code 27232 on its first page and QP Code 15884 on its second, and so does the 2018 scan, subject code 70509 on printer's form 60901 and Q.P. Code 50468. The 2019 file is byte for byte the same scan as the 2018 file, so the same fourteen answers are served at both addresses. The 2016 file is QP Code 11888, and the two newest files are single papers printed in English and then in Marathi, form 86334 sat on 19 May 2025 and form 07413 sat on 8 April 2026. That is how sixty two answers come to stand against forty eight questions.

Four questions are printed on more than one paper in the same words, or so nearly the same that one answer serves, and every one of those repeats falls among the 2015 and 2018 papers: the provisions on hacking, source code tampering and publishing obscene information, set on both 2015 papers; the establishment, composition, jurisdiction and powers of the Cyber Appellate Tribunal, set on both 2015 papers and the second 2018 paper; how the UNCITRAL Model Law encourages harmonisation and what its benefits are, set on the first 2015 paper and both 2018 papers; and cyber terrorism with its forms and implications, set on the second 2015 paper and both 2018 papers. Each repeated question carries the identical answer. Short notes repeat as well: the electronic contract and copyright in a computer program are each set three times, and the difference between electronic and digital signatures, electronic governance and the electronic record twice each. Nothing on the 2016 paper or the 2024-2025 paper is repeated anywhere, and the 2025-2026 paper repeats only two short notes first set in 2015.

The shape of the paper has barely moved. Six of the seven papers set SEVEN questions and the 2016 paper sets SIX. Every paper is three hours, a hundred marks and any four questions, so each answer is worth twenty five. Five papers print 25 against every question; the 2024-2025 paper prints no figure, and the 2016 paper promises that figures to the right indicate full marks and then prints none. The last question is always a set of notes or short parts, and its rubric changes: the 2015 and 2018 papers want every note printed, the 2016 paper wants any three of five notes and then three compulsory parts, and the two newest papers want any two of four.

What recurs is unusually predictable, and the counts are by paper, so a topic set twice on one paper counts once. The cyber OFFENCES under the Act, in one form or another, are set on ALL SEVEN papers, and so are ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, DIGITAL SIGNATURE CERTIFICATES and CERTIFYING AUTHORITIES. ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS are set on six papers, CYBER TERRORISM on six, and the PROTECTION OF SOFTWARE, whether as copyright in a computer program or as intellectual property in general, on six. The UNCITRAL MODEL LAW is set on five papers. The APPELLATE TRIBUNAL and the liability of INTERMEDIARIES and service providers are each set on four.

The thinner topics are where papers are won. ELECTRONIC GOVERNANCE, the DEFINITIONS of information technology, computer, computer system and computer network, and SECTION 66A are each set on three papers, and the ELECTRONIC RECORD on two. JURISDICTION over transnational cyber crime and SOCIAL MEDIA with other emerging technologies are each set twice, and only on the two newest papers, which is the clearest sign of where the paper is heading. And eight topics appear exactly once in the folder, all answered in full here: the 2008 amendment, information security, the socio-legal impact of cyber crime, the functions of the Controller, the legislative measures against cyber fraud, offences by companies, the importance of the hash value and the authentication of electronic records.

Several questions are set on law that has since changed, and every answer on them says so before answering what the examiner meant. Four papers ask about the CYBER APPELLATE TRIBUNAL, which ceased to exist on 26 May 2017, when the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal became the Appellate Tribunal under the Act. Three papers ask about SECTION 66A, which the Supreme Court struck down in 2015 and Parliament omitted with effect from 30 November 2023, the same day on which breach of confidentiality and privacy and disclosure in breach of a lawful contract, which the first 2015 paper calls offences, became civil penalties. The 2016 paper asks how cyber crimes are addressed by the Indian Penal Code, which the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replaced on 1 July 2024, and it speaks of suspending or revoking digital signatures, when what the Act suspends or revokes is the certificate.

Every paper tells the candidate to cite case law, and the answers are built on the authorities this subject actually turns on, among them Shreya Singhal v. Union of India on section 66A and on what actual knowledge means for an intermediary, Sharat Babu Digumarti v. Government of NCT of Delhi on the Act prevailing over the general penal law, Anvar P.V. v. P.K. Basheer and Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal on the certificate an electronic record needs in court, Trimex International FZE Ltd. v. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. on a contract concluded by email, Syed Asifuddin v. State of Andhra Pradesh on tampering with source code, Aneeta Hada v. Godfather Travels and Tours on when the officers of a company can be prosecuted, and Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India on the right to privacy.

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