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Consilience 2023

A Conference on Online Gaming held on April 21, 2023.

Aakash Tuteja, Anushka PS, Aryan Vatkar, Priyansh Dixit, Ritvij Ratn Tiwari, Rohan Srivastava, Sarthak Virdi, Siddharth Kumar, Sunidhi Das*

May 1, 2023 1 min read

The Law and Technology Society (“L-Tech”), in collaboration with the All India Game Developers’ Forum (“AIGDF”), organized its flagship academic conference- Consilience 2023- on April 21st, 2023. The theme of this year’s conference was Online Gaming in India. This became particularly relevant because of two reasons- first, the amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary guidelines and digital media ethics) Rules 2021 were notified, and second, gaming companies were subject to a 28% Goods and Services Tax. These legislative changes to an emerging industry made it important to discuss the changes.

The Conference drew academics, lawyers as well as industrialists in an intense discussion on the regulatory, taxation, and the business perspectives of online gaming. The Conference was divided into the following four panels:

Online gaming regulation in India
Taxation in Online Gaming Industry
Navigating the Gaming landscape: New Businesses & M&A Opportunities
Making India a Global Gaming Powerhouse

(Click here to view the full conference report)

*This report was made by the students of the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.