{"id":89212,"date":"2019-08-08T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2019-08-08T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:07:41","slug":"online-content-cant-be-regulated-under-cinematograph-act-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/online-content-cant-be-regulated-under-cinematograph-act-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Online content can\u2019t be regulated under Cinematograph Act: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Karnataka High Court has held that the\nfilms, serials and other multimedia contents transmitted through online\nplatforms like Youtube, Netflix cannot be regulated under Cinematograph Act,\n1952.<\/li><li>The court observed that going by the concept of\ninternet and its operation, the act of exhibition of films, serials and other\ncontent perhaps amounts to transfer of files based on requests by users.\nTherefore, it does not come under the purview of Cinematograph Act.<\/li><li>The\nverdict came in the backdrop of a petition which alleged that children were\nbeing affected due to unregulated content transmitted through online platforms.\nThe petition sought a mechanism to regulate content from online platforms.<\/li><li>Earlier\na similar petition was filed in Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court which\nsought framing of guidelines by the government to regulate the functioning of\nonline media streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.<\/li><li>Cinematograph\nAct, 1952 deals with provisions for the certification of cinematograph films\nfor exhibition and for regulating exhibitions by means of cinematographs. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court has held that the films, serials and other multimedia contents transmitted through online platforms like Youtube, Netflix cannot be regulated under Cinematograph Act, 1952. The court observed that going by the concept of internet and its operation, the act of exhibition of films, serials and other content perhaps amounts to transfer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/online-content-cant-be-regulated-under-cinematograph-act-hc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online content can\u2019t be regulated under Cinematograph Act: HC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6387],"class_list":["post-89212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-online-media-straming-platforms","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704796227},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}