The Hon’ble High Court of Delhi on August 5, 2016 in the case of Kritika Padode v. Union of India &…
One of the confirmations that litigation provides is that the black letter of the law is often grey. Even when clear legal boundaries are set, attempts are made to circumvent it.
This is visible in a recent case seeking to protect news under copyright law…
Last fortnight the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting shrugged off its regulatory lethargy and issued orders prohibiting the telecast of three private television channels. One of the channels which found itself in the crosshairs was Comedy Central for…
The Delhi High Court by its judgement in Multi Sceen Media v. Vidhya Dheer and Others [FAO (OS) 119/2013], on 28th February, 2013 lifted an injunction on the telecast of a television programme reporting on the conviction of Mr. Om Prakash Chautala. The injunction…
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A recent post titled as “who’s the boss?”, discussed the petition filed by Viacom challenging the Order issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) which demanded that the show, Big Boss be shifted from the prime time viewing slot…
The first part of this series post on content regulation of reality television dealt with more individualized forms of legal remedies and came to the conclusion that they are quite limited and onerous to…
(This is a 2 part blog series examining the legal responses to reality television shows in India. Such shows with a view to gain viewership are frequently containing offending and scandalous content. The…
On 31st March, 2009 the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) pronounced judgment in the case of the Cellular Operators Association of India & Others v. Union of India and Others (Petition №286/2007). This case was popularly…
Within hours of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, news channels were making comparisons of the attacks to the terror strike on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The invented coinage, “India’s 9/11” gained quick currency and was applied to how the attacks had affected each one of us…
