Delhi High Court orders OTT platforms to add accessibility features
The Delhi High Court has directed OTT and content producers to include essential accessibility features such as subtitles, closed captions, and audio descriptions in their shows and films. The Court issued this order while hearing a petition seeking the...
ELECTION COMMISSION DIRECTS EROS NOW TO STOP THE STREAMING OF WEB SERIES ON PM MODI WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
The Election Commission on April 20, 2019 issued a notice to Eros Now, the digital platform streaming the web series titled “Modi-Journey of a Common Man”, directing them to immediately stop the...
India one of few prior censorship countries where scenes deleted before film release: Delhi High Court rejects PIL against Aankh Micholi
The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain a public interest litigation claiming that the film “Aankh Micholi”, which released in November last year, is derogatory to people with...
Delhi High Court passes unique 'dynamic+ injunction' to curb illegal streaming of existing and future content of 6 studios
In Universal City Studios LLC & Ors v. DotMovies.Baby and Ors, the Delhi High Court has restrained 16 rogue websites as well as their mirror/redirects or alphanumeric variations from streaming or...
Supreme Court Upholds Dream11 Online Fantasy Sports Format As ‘Game Of Skill’
On hearing a petition questioning the nature of business of fantasy cricket operators Dream11, the SC has once again reaffirmed the judgements passed by the Punjab & Haryana High Court and the Bombay High Court, and has upheld the...
ANAND PATWARDHAN MOVES BOMBAY HC AGAINST MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR EXCLUDING HIS DOCUMENTARY FROM FILM FESTIVAL
Film maker Anand Patwardhan has moved the Bombay High Court against Mumbai International Film Festival and others for rejecting his film from being included in the film festival. Petitioners alleged that the common...
DELHI HC ASKS T-SERIES TO SHOW MOVIE ‘KHANDAANI SHAFAKHANA’ TO SEXOLOGIST
The Delhi High Court vide order dated July 23, 2019 asked Super Cassettes Industries Pvt Ltd, which does business under the label T-Series, to hold a special screening of its movie ‘Khandaani Shafakhana’ for a Delhi based sexologist Vijay...
Delhi High Court directs Whatsapp to block groups illegally circulating Dainik Bhaskar owned E-newspaper
The Delhi High Court on December 28, 2021 directed Whatsapp to take down groups that were illegally circulating E-newspapers belonging to Dainik Bhaskar Corp. Ltd. Justice Sanjeev Narula was of the opinion that the plaintiff, Dainik...
Shemaroo Vs News Nation: Bombay High Court Rejects Fair Dealing & De Minimis Defence, Grants Injunction in Favour of Shemaroo
The Bombay High Court granted injunction in favour of Shemaroo in a copyright infringement suit against News Nation and restrained the latter from exploiting Shemaroo’s content in any manner whatsoever...
INDIA
Bombay High Court allows release of Khuda Haafiz 2
As the producers agreed to the recommended changes by CFBC, the petition against the release of the film was disposed.
The changes to the film included deleting the word "Husain" from the film's song replacing it with "junoon," and also deleting the...
