{"id":1021323,"date":"2026-07-16T08:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021323"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:42:13","slug":"govt-considering-amendment-in-it-rules-for-ott-platforms-action-against-zee5-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/govt-considering-amendment-in-it-rules-for-ott-platforms-action-against-zee5-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt considering amendment in IT Rules for OTT platforms, action against ZEE5: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is considering amending the IT Rules 2021 for certification of films before release on OTT platforms, a development that comes amid a controversy over the film &#8216;Satluj&#8217; that was released without any clearances. <\/p>\n<p>Sources said the government is mulling introducing compulsory certification and clearance from the Censor Board before any film is released on OTT platforms. For this, an amendment in the IT Rules is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is considering amending the IT Rules 2021 for certification of films before release on OTT platforms, a development that comes amid a controversy over the film &#8216;Satluj&#8217; that was released without any clearances. Sources said the government is mulling introducing compulsory certification and clearance from the Censor Board before any film is released on OTT platforms. For this, an amendment in the IT Rules is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021324,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021323\/revisions\/1021324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}