Canada-based production company Format Factory is the first global studio to avail the incentive scheme for the audio-visual co-production & shooting of foreign films in India in record time. The scheme was announced by union minister of information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur in May 2022 during his visit at the 75th Cannes film festival.
The government had blocked 20 YouTube channels and two websites in December when emergency powers under the IT Rules, 2021, were first utilised to act against anti-India fake news networks
An industry group called Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) representing US-based Big Tech firms have urged India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to make changes in the proposed amendments to the country's new IT Rules, 2021 which would "negate the government's commitment to ease of doing business".
As the streaming giant embraces advertising and stabilizes its content spend at $17 billion annually, financial observers' reactions range from relief at beating low expectations to an outlier call to sell the company entirely.
The panel said the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) should keep a constant watch over the rising number of high-risk assesses' cases in new and emerging segments of the entertainment sector -- augmented and virtual reality, social videos, cloud gaming, and podcasting
Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are now the preferred mode of news consumption for British teenagers, a report by U.K. media regulator Ofcom has found.
Summer blockbusters and streaming hits could obscure the economic pain of entertainment giants facing the rest of the year amid an advertising pullback, inflation drag and supply chain issues.
A federal court in Virginia has granted a temporary restraining order that requires PayPal and Alipay to freeze the assets of VPN provider "VeePN". The order was requested by several filmmakers, who accuse the VPN of promoting the piracy app Porcom Time, and advertising on notorious torrent site YTS.mx.
After filing a copyright lawsuit in 2021, this April several Hollywood studios and Netflix won a broad injunction to shut down illegal streaming site PrimeWire. It will come as no surprise to learn that is more easily said than done. The MPA says that after the head of PrimeWire was chopped off by an injunction, a new site called HydraWire emerged to mock both Hollywood and the court
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued a consultation paper on 'Renewal of Multi-System Operators (MSOs) Registration' following a reference from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB).