{"id":1021423,"date":"2026-07-16T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021423"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:21:24","slug":"govt-considering-amendment-in-it-rules-for-ott-platforms-action-against-zee5-sources-2","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-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt considering amendment in IT Rules for OTT platforms, action against ZEE5: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018Satluj\u2019 that was released without any clearances. <\/p>\n<p>Sources said the government is mulling introducing compulsory certification and clearance from 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>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 \u2018Satluj\u2019 that was released without any clearances. Sources said the government is mulling introducing compulsory certification and clearance from 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":[90,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021423","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=1021423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021449,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021423\/revisions\/1021449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}