Media & Law

Unit I — Mass Media — Types of Media: Press Films Radio Television

Ownership Patterns: Press — Private, Public · Films — Private · Radio & Television — Public · Differences between Visual and Non-Visual Media Impact on people's tiinds

Unit II — Press — Freedom of Speech and Expression (Article 19(1)(a))

Includes freedom of the press · «i. Laws of defamation, obscenity, blasphemy and sedition i ’ wages and service conditi · Law relating to employees · Price and pages schedule regulation · Newsprint Control Order · Advertisement included within freedom of speech and expression? · Press and the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act

• Article 19 — Six Fundamental Freedoms and Reasonable Restrictions

Unit III — Films — Are they included in freedom of speech and expression?

Censorship of films — Constitutionality · The Abbas Case ne Bee ili. Differences between films and press — Why Pre-censorship is valid for films but not for the press · C ensorship under the C inematograph Act 1952

Unit IV — Radio Television and OTT Platform

OTT Rules Information Technology (Intermediary · Guidelines and Digital · Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 · Should there be an autonomous corporation? · Effect of television on people · Report of the Chanda Committee · Government policy · Commercial advertisement · Internal security of serials etc · Viii. Judicial review of Doordarshan decisions: Freedom to telecast

Unit V — Constitutional Restrictions

Radio and television subject to law of defamation and obscenity · Power of legislate — Article 246 read with the Seventh Schedule · ° Power to impose tax — licensing and license fee