India: Media & Entertainment Law

Subscribe
Entertainment law, media law and telecoms law thought leadership, articles, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore insights covering topics such as advertising, marketing and branding, broadcasting, gaming, hotels and hospitality, publishing, and mobile and cable communications.
Article
Evolving Space For Dynamic Injunction In The Realm Of Growing Infringement In Digital Era
The internet is the most dynamic tool of the 21st century, with a myriad of applications that have drastically increased the flow of information across the globe. It has become the epicenter of human existence and a catalyst for development to an unprecedented extent. While its convenient and borderless nature has enhanced global connectivity, it has simultaneously given rise to modern-day quandaries.
India Media & IT
ML
MZM Legal
Article
SC Upholds That Marketing Of Assigned Music Rights For Own Commercial Benefit Is Not A Taxable Service And Ancillary Marketing Obligations Are Not Separately Taxable
The Supreme Court has clarified the service tax treatment of marketing and promotion expenditure incurred by a broadcaster on commercially exploiting acquired music and song video rights. The Court upheld the CESTAT’s view that such expenditure does not represent consideration for any taxable service to the film producers, since the broadcaster promoted the rights for its own benefit as assignee and therefore no taxable service relationship existed.
India Tax
AC
Aurtus Consulting LLP
Article
From Safe Harbour To Command‑And‑Control: How India's 2026 IT Rules Draft Turns Intermediary Compliance Into Real‑Time Obedience
On March 30, 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ("MeitY") has circulated draft Second Amendment Rules, 2026 ("Draft Amendment") to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ("IT Rules, 2021"), proposing the consequential structural realignment of India's intermediary liability.
India Media & IT
KS
King, Stubb & Kasiva
Article
Demerger Of BCCL’s EIBME Undertaking: Legal Analysis Of NCLT Approval Under The Companies Act, 2013
The Mumbai Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved a Composite Scheme of Arrangement between Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), the flagship entity of the Times Group, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Times Horizon Private Limited (THPL), marking a significant step in the restructuring of its business operations in India.
India Commercial
KS
King, Stubb & Kasiva
See more

Latest Videos

See more