The Indian government has filed a transfer petition to move all the pending cases in high courts to Supreme Court as it nears to release OTT censorship guidelines
The industry body IAMAI today announced the adoption of a comprehensive implementation toolkit that abides ‘Universal Self-Regulation Code’
Earlier this week, the I&B minister Prakash Javadekar said that the government will be launching OTT guidelines soon
With multiple cases hanging around the over-the-top (OTT) video streaming platforms, the Indian government is reportedly looking to transfer all the pending cases in high courts to the Supreme Court. The transfer petition, however, was filed through the secretaries of the information & broadcasting as well as the IT ministry and the law ministry on December 20, 2020.
With this move, the government is trying to bring in censorship and guidelines to regulate content streamed on OTT platforms as it is currently outside the realm of the regulatory framework of the…
