Supreme Court restricts social media sharing of court proceeding recordings without prior permission
How left and right are reading this
- Both agree
- Court recordings can be misused when clipped, edited, or monetised online, while ordinary news reporting on proceedings should remain outside the restriction.
- They split on
- Whether the story is about preventing distortion and private profiteering from judicial footage, or about courts asserting permission-based control over their own proceedings.
The Facts
- The Supreme Court issued an interim order barring the posting, reposting or uploading of audio-video recordings of court proceedings on social media and other digital platforms without prior permission from the concerned court authorities.
- Multiple reports said the interim order also bars extraction, modification or editing, dissemination, and monetisation of recordings of judicial proceedings without prior permission.
- The order was passed by a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana.
- The bench acted while hearing a public interest litigation or plea that raised concerns about misuse of live-streamed court proceedings and circulation of clips on social media.
- The court sought responses from the Centre and other authorities on the plea, signaling that the issue remains under consideration beyond the interim restriction.
- Several reports said the court clarified that the interim restriction does not apply to news reporting of court proceedings.
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Context
What exactly did the Supreme Court restrict?
The interim order bars people from extracting, editing or modifying, disseminating, posting, reposting, uploading and, according to several reports, monetising audio-video recordings of judicial proceedings on social media or other digital platforms without prior permission from the relevant court authority Tribune,Hindustan Times,mint,Asian News Internat….
Why did the court issue this order?
The order came during hearings on a plea that alleged misuse of live-streamed court proceedings, including selective clipping and circulation of videos on social media in ways the petition said distorted proceedings or enabled commercial exploitation Deccan Chronicle,Hindustan Times,cnbctv18.com,New Indian Express.
Does this stop journalists from reporting on court proceedings?
Several reports said the Supreme Court clarified that its order should not be treated as a bar on news reporting of court proceedings, even as it restricts unauthorised use of audio-video recordings online NDTV,Indian Express,Daily News and Anal…,ThePrint,Asian News Internat….
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