If the Ministry of Information and Broadcast makes a regulation for the certification of online streaming content which requires it to view everything on the internet all the time, it will be “impossible for any government or organisation to do so, said Information and Broadcast Ministry’s Secretary, Amit Khare, on October 11, at the seminar on film certification and regulation of online content, held in Mumbai. His remarks come at a time after I&B minister Prakash Javadekar, had in September this year, said that the ministry would create a framework to certify online streaming content. The two-day seminar was organised by MIB and the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT). Attendees at the seminar included prominent film makers, national award winning film critics, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) members, and representatives of streaming platforms among others. Khare did acknowledge the fact that streaming/over the top (OTT) platforms have given smaller firms and creators exposure. “OTT [over the top] as a technology has been very important. Many of the smaller films, creative people who could not have got exposure on TV or in film theatres have got exposure [due] to OTT,” Khare said. However, making a case for regulation, he said that while “technology is neither good or bad, it is the type of rules that you lay” that defines how beneficial it will eventually be. “[T]he best example being the nuclear technology…even for nuclear technology, you have the agreements between countries,” he said. At this moment though, it seems as…
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Impossible for us to view everything on the Internet all the time: I&B Secy Amit Khare; Confidential consultation on content regulation
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