The Centre on Tuesday advised the Supreme Court that it was considering to take some motion on the difficulty of regulating OTT platforms equivalent to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. A petitioner approached the courtroom looking for OTT regulation by an autonomous physique. A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian was initially of the view that the petitioner ought to strategy the federal government for treatment however later requested the federal government to file its response inside six weeks.
Reportedly, Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain mentioned that Centre was considering some motion on the difficulty of regulating OTT platforms. The CJI sought to know from Jain what the motion would be and requested him to file a response in six weeks whereas tagging the matter with the pending petition.
The plea by advocates Shashank Shekhar Jha and Apurva Arhatia mentioned that with cinema theatres unlikely to open anytime quickly within the nation, OTT/Streaming and totally different digital media platforms have certainly given a approach out for movie makers and artists to launch their content material with out being concerned about getting clearance certificates for their movies and collection from the censor board.
At current, nonetheless, there isn’t any legislation or autonomous physique governing the digital content material to watch and handle these digital contents and it’s made accessible to the general public at giant with none filter or screening. Lack of laws governing OTT/Streaming Platforms is turning into evident with every passing day and each new case that is filed on these grounds. The authorities is dealing with warmth to fill this lacuna with laws from the general public and the Judiciary; nonetheless the related authorities departments haven’t achieved something vital to regularise these OTT/Streaming Platforms, the plea additional mentioned.
The petition additionally claimed that one of the streaming platforms have signed the self regulation offered by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting since February 2020.
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