1. Educational Purposes Only; No Legal Advice or Advocate-Client Relationship
The content provided on www.placitumadvocates.com (the “Website”), including but not limited to legal summaries, blog articles, case law breakdowns, text, graphics, images, audio, video, and synthetic educational assets (collectively, “Content”), is intended strictly for general academic and educational purposes.
- No Legal Advice: The Content on this Website does not constitute formal legal advice, legal opinion, or legal consultation under the Advocates Act, 1961. Users must not rely on any material published on this Website as a substitute for professional legal advice from an Advocate enrolled with a State Bar Council in India.
- No Advocate-Client Relationship: Navigating, accessing, reading, or interacting with this Website—or submitting queries via any online form or AI tool—does not create an Advocate-Client, fiduciary, or professional relationship between you and Placitum Advocates, its owners, authors, or operators.
2. Disclosure of AI-Generated and AI-Assisted Content
In accordance with ethical digital standards and emerging regulatory frameworks in India, users are hereby expressly notified that significant portions of the Content on this Website (including text, statutory summaries, blog posts, diagrams, case summaries, and visual illustrations) are generated, summarized, augmented, or produced using Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) technologies, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- AI Limitations & Hallucinations: AI technologies can produce factual errors, outdated statutory interpretations, inaccurate citation of Indian judgments, or synthetic hallucinations.
- No Guarantee of Absolute Accuracy: While reasonable editorial oversight is applied to review materials, Placitum Advocates gives no guarantee, representation, or warranty regarding the current validity, accuracy, completeness, or statutory relevance of any AI-assisted legal content under Indian statutes or Supreme Court / High Court precedents.
3. Copyright Disclaimer & Fair Dealing under Indian Law
- Fair Dealing Exception (Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957): Where third-party copyrighted materials (such as statutory provisions, judicial opinions, law review excerpts, or tribunal orders) are processed, referenced, or summarized using AI tools on this Website, such use is strictly conducted under the Fair Dealing provisions of Section 52(1)(a) of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, specifically for the purposes of private study, research, critique, review, and reporting of current events/educational instructions.
- Proprietary Interest in AI Compilation: In accordance with Indian copyright jurisprudence regarding human authorship and original selection/arrangement, Placitum Advocates claims copyright and intellectual property rights over the original editorial selection, structure, synthesis, human modifications, and custom formatting applied to any AI-generated base outputs on this Website.
- Unintentional Similarity: AI models are trained on dynamic global datasets. Any unintended resemblance between AI-generated text or images on this Website and pre-existing third-party copyrighted works is purely coincidental and non-deliberate.
4. Copyright Infringement & Grievance Redressal Mechanism (IT Act, 2000 & Rules)
www.placitumadvocates.com respects the intellectual property rights of creators and functions in compliance with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
If you believe that any text, photo, image, summary, or material generated or published on this Website infringes your copyright under the Copyright Act, 1957, you may submit a takedown notice to our email containing the following details:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
- Identification of the specific URL/link on our Website where the allegedly infringing material is located.
- Your contact details (Full Name, Address, Phone Number, and Email Address).
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the contested use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or Indian law.
- A declaration under penalty of perjury that the information provided in the notice is accurate.
Email: placitumadvocates@gmail.com